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Ecuador ports and bananas fuel record global cocaine trade, UN finds

By Mateo Palacios Ecuador has emerged as one of the world's most important logistics hubs for cocaine trafficking, according ...
Digital Journal

Ecuador banana industry slips over war in Ukraine

Mirella Carrera, owner of the Thalia banana plantation in El Triunfo says she has 7,000 bunches of bananas with no-one to sell them to – Copyright AFP RONALDO ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Diplomatic tensions between Ecuador and Russia over military equipment threaten banana exports

A diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify over the weekend after the European nation decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador. The two countries have been at ...
Yahoo

Russia bans Ecuador’s bananas after deal to send Soviet-era weapons to Ukraine

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Russian agriculture watchdog says authorisations for five Ecuadorian exporters were suspended from Tuesday - AFP Russia is ...
Newsday

Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador's president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge

QUITO, Ecuador — Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, was sworn in Thursday as Ecuador’s president, a role that citizens are demanding he uses to ...
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Russia buys bananas from India after Ecuador military hardware spat

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russia has begun buying bananas from India and will boost such imports, its food safety watchdog said on Tuesday, after a spat with its biggest supplier Ecuador over the latter's ...