FBI opens first Ecuador office in fight against drug trafficking
The United States has opened its first Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in Ecuador, the U.S. Embassy in Quito said on Wednesday.
The office will aim to work with Ecuadorean officials to fight the trafficking of drugs and weapons, along with money laundering and the financing of terrorism, the embassy said in a social media post.
Ecuador’s Interior Minister John Reimber told reporters that collaboration with the FBI office would start immediately, after prior joint efforts with the U.S.
“What has changed is that we have FBI agents permanently in Ecuador working with a national police unit that has been set up so that they can work together,” he said.
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