Ecuador President Daniel Nuboa announced – yesterday, Thursday, that Israel offered his country to “assist her intelligence” in the war against drug cartels.
“We talked to the Israeli government about cooperation, intelligence and cooperation in the field of security in ports and borders. In this regard, Israel, as well as the United Arab Emirates, with their intelligence systems, want to help us,” he said in an interview, with the French Press Agency in Paris.
At the end of an external tour, the 37 -year -old president said that “for us, this is necessary, because violence is there, in these areas or on the roads leading to the ports.”
This came after Israel and Ecuador, last Wednesday, signed a memorandum of understanding to enhance bilateral cooperation for a period of 5 years in the field of renewable energy, advanced technology and energy management.
And Nubua, who was re -elected in mid -April, concluded in Paris a European and Middle East tour during which he sought to find international allies of his country in its war against organized crime.
On his tour, Nuboa visited Italy, the Vatican, Spain, the Emirates, Israel, the United Kingdom and France.
Ecuador is a small country located in the Andes Mountains with a population of about 18 million, and it was one day considered a haven for peace in a troubled area, but it is now insecure in a bloody war between drug cartels that are fighting to control the ways of smuggling cocaine produced in Colombia and Peru adjacent.
