About drugs, the current system benefic economically some people, and those people will push to continue that situation.
Also, there are other ways to get money for criminal gangs. Coupons and extortions are usual crime modalities. Hitmans are usually related to other modalities, but they are also common here in LaTaM.
Another problem is that prisons in the region are usually overpopulated and underfunded. It's basically the ideal enviromemt to train more delincuency.
Should we make a 'Ecuador: Internal Armed Conflict, Crime and Violence' thread?
The situation seems bad, even for latinoamerican standarts. This is not an isolated episode: a presidential candidate was killed the past year.
The state of emergency / internal armes conflict is kind of just starting... Should we continue here or create a new threat on this sort conflict or on the country in general?
