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Drug cartels exploit Ecuador banana industry to ship cocaine (Video)

(4 Sep 2023) The port city of Guayaquil sees thousands of shipments of fruit pass through daily. The country's geography makes it the perfect place to grow bananas - situated along the Equator, it is temperate all year round. But drug cartels are exploiting this trade - packing cocaine in with legitimate shipments of bananas which pass undetected through ports which are poorly supervised. (August 4) (AP Video/Cesar Olmos)

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(4 Sep 2023) The port city of Guayaquil sees thousands of shipments of fruit pass through daily. The country's geography makes it the perfect place to grow bananas - situated along the Equator, it is temperate all year round. But drug cartels are exploiting this trade - packing cocaine in with legitimate shipments of bananas which pass undetected through ports which are poorly supervised. (August 4) (AP Video/Cesar Olmos) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

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