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If there is one thing that this week has laid bare, though, it's that Ecuador's problems run deep. The drug gangs, which are believed to operate in tandem with powerful Mexican cartels, are smuggling tonnes of cocaine out of Ecuador's ports, like Guayaquil, to the US and Europe.