Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Politics › Ecuador Asks US Daily for Help Curbing $30 Billion Cocaine Trade
Politics

Ecuador Asks US Daily for Help Curbing $30 Billion Cocaine Trade

Bloomberg Markets Monday 21 September 2026, 22:00 UTC By Augusta Saraiva and Stephan Kueffner 1 min read
Key Points

Ecuador asks the US ‘every day’ for more help fighting a cocaine trade worth an estimated $30 billion a year, President Daniel Noboa said Monday, while insisting local security forces should remain in charge.

Ecuador asks the US ‘every day’ for more help fighting a cocaine trade worth an estimated $30 billion a year, President Daniel Noboa said Monday, while insisting local security forces should remain in charge.
Ecuador (LOCATION) Cocaine Trade (ORG) US (LOCATION) Daniel Noboa (PERSON)
Originally published by Bloomberg Markets Read original →

Related Stories

AI poses new national security threat, outgoing Hong Kong deputy police chief warns

Advertisement AI poses new national security threat, outgoing Hong Kong deputy police chief warns Andrew Kan discusses using AI to fight AI, ongoing threat of soft resistance and what lies ahead after retirement 4-MIN READ4-MIN Retiring deputy police commissioner Andrew Kan Kai-yan has said artificial intelligence (AI) poses a new threat to national security in Hong Kong, with the force turning to the emerging technology to help combat the issue. Kan raised the alarm after state security...

South China Morning Post 5m ago

The trouble with thinking 40 years ahead

Welcome to Paul Karp, who joins us today as Canberra Playbook editor from the Australian Financial Review, and Amanda Copp, who joins from Nine, our Canberra Playbook correspondent and the host of our new podcast launching in October. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, you can sign up free here. Do you know anyone who believes the Treasury’s long-term projections?

Politico EU 13m ago

Appeals court rules in favor of Trump-backed Missouri congressional maps

Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fightA long-running legal fight over Missouri’s congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election. A three-judge panel of the 8th US circuit court of appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn...

The Guardian World 21m ago

Appeals court seeks to revive GOP congressional map in Missouri

A federal appeals court on Monday introduced a new wrinkle into the convoluted fight over whether Republicans can use a new congressional map in November’s election, as the GOP tries to eliminate one of the state’s two Democratic House districts. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the new map drawn last year should be used this fall, even though the Supreme Court has already twice rejected Republicans on the issue in recent weeks and had apparently put the...

NBC News 25m ago