The Biden administration has forged confidential pacts with Ecuador, opening the door for the deployment of U.S. military forces, both on land and the sea of the South American nation.
The Biden administration has forged confidential pacts with Ecuador, opening the door for the deployment of U.S. military forces, both on land and on the sea for the South American nation.
During his visit to Washington, Lasso engaged in discussions with high-ranking officials from the State Department and formalized two agreements, as confirmed by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who participated in the meeting and shared insights with the Washington Examiner Thursday. "That doesn't mean we're doing it, but it means we can, and it means that they're making a very clear signal to us that they want us more involved," Crenshaw said.
"There's just a river of cocaine [coming] up past the Galapagos Islands," said Adam Isacson, who heads defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America. "I think they're reestablishing more of a base at Manta base. We had a forward-operating base there in the 1990s."
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