Ecuador borrowed El Salvador's hard-line Bukele security model of mega-prisons and militarization, yet two years on the killings keep climbing.
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—The borrowed plan. Ecuador’s president openly copied El Salvador’s hard-line crackdown on gangs.
—The tools. He sent the army into the streets and prisons and pledged mega-jails on the Salvadoran template.
—The result. More than two years on, killings keep rising and prison massacres continue.
—The reason. Ecuador’s gangs are drug-trafficking networks, not the street gangs the model was built to crush.
El modelo de seguridad de Bukele naufraga en el Ecuador de Noboa
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Citizens of the most violent-wracked provinces have been warned the government is "at war" with the gangs.
