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Statistics on the increase in drug trafficking in Ecuador

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Statistics on the increase in drug trafficking in Ecuador

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Drug trafficking is closer to Ecuador. In 2020, 128,432 kilos of drugs were seized. This figure was 61.49% higher than that of 2019. Between January and February 2021, the National Police seized 22,629 kilos of narcotics. This amount is 35.36% higher than that confiscated in the same period of 2020.

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Economic effects of narcotraffic in Ecuador

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Economic effects of narcotraffic in Ecuador

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The damage that produce the narcotraffic to the economy from Ecuador depends in the bottom of the volume and to the economic values that are involved. The main aspects in which can view the economic effects that the narcotraffic causes are: The economic instability, the use of fraudulent mechanisms and the growth of the informal economy.

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A report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) indicates that, if we compare the area planted with coca in the Andean countries, Ecuador has 0.04% less, because the average in the region was 51,100 hectares in 2017. In Ecuador, the cultivated area is less than 25 hectares.
The document also shows that there are 18,890 laboratories that process coca powder and leaves worldwide. Among them, Latin America accounted for 97.5% and Ecuador 13, accounted for 0.03%.

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Consequences of drugs on society and the human body

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Consequences of drugs on society and the human body

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Some of the important side effects are: hepatic insufficiency, cardiac insufficiency, cognitive, memory and attention problems, convulsions, nausea, abdominal pain as well as family and social problems. And as a final consequence, the  death of a drug consumer.

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In the first reform, the Consep, in 2013, established for the first time a threshold policy, a table of maximum quantities for the possession of illicit drugs.
Another important measure was Ecuador's renunciation of the Tariff Preferences Treaty with the United States on 27 June 2013.
In the second reform, the thresholds that distinguished the scales of trafficking are reduced to quantities that blur the line between micro-trafficking and consumption.
This has led to a 60 per cent increase in the number of people arrested.

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In this conversation we ask some questions to the public that were about topics mentionated before. The public also do the questions to the students that were presenting the topic. We also learn about stadistics, efects, performance of the prosecution, economy, crops of drugs in Ecuador also drug trafficking and how this affect to our country.