Ecuador se ha convertido en el escenario sudamericano que mejor ilustra los límites y los peligros de aplicar una fórmula importada para hacer frente a la creciente violencia. Lo que en El Salvador de Nayib Bukele se vende como un milagro de mano dura, en el Pacífico ecuatoriano naufraga en medio de un baño de sangre inédito. La seguridad en el territorio ecuatoriano parece que no se deja contener con recetas diseñadas para pandillas de barrio.

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The last time Verónica saw her son was December 16, 2025. She had been working at the small food stand with which she supports her family — an improvised oven and some plastic tables and chairs alongside the highway that connects Quinindé with Esmeraldas on the northern coast of Ecuador. Starting early in the day, she had watched for the military convoy transferring her son to the maximum-security prison Encuentro, which was built in the middle of a forest, some 280 miles from her home. “It was as if God wanted us to see each other, because the vehicle stopped for a moment,” she remembers.

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