Thanks. Another quiet day so far

Thanks for the update. Take care .

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Thanks 👍. Take care.

Hello from Vilcabamba.

Your good to go. Enjoy your trip but keep checking for latest news developments.

@JohnSmith-SdTkt We as well are leaving Canada on Jan 20 to make our way down to Olon for a month. It will be nice to vacate the cold temperatures here. As seasoned travelers and not by choice, we have been in conflict areas before (i.e. IRA clashes in London and Germany as well as a 1992 Coup attempt in Venezuela) We will avoid areas we have no business being in and try our best to enjoy what Ecuador and its citizens have to offer.

Good to hear. Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍. Yes there is a video showing the new prison design on primicias

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Thanks very much

Thanks. Great perspective

Thanks. I try to keep informed using local sources in Ecuador.

Yes Ecuador has made a conscious decision to call cartel and gang members what they are, terrorists.

Can you please share the websites you're getting local news from? Especially the ones pictured in the video? Thanks! @@KrisandMike

​@@rianahensel2700Primicias and el universo

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Canada has a similar problem and is largely being ignored. Thanks 👍

100k people gone who are now no longer a burden on society. I guess its sad but everyone is free to choose how to live

@@98f5 I look at the numbers as an indicator that drug use is growing. I know of people with drug use, mostly it's grandparents stepping up after their children have given up on their user child but, I know a few users too. Like you said, they made their choice. There are a lot more people that suffer because they made that choice. I'd say we all suffer because of drug use.

@jerrym3261 yeah i agree we all suffer from irresponsible people, parentless homes, and generally degenerate behavior. I lost about 20 acquaintances who i went to highschool or college with since 2000, most of them due to opiates of one sort or another, most the ones i knew got started with the "legal" drugs from their doctors and later moved on to worse shit. Unfortunately its made me a bit jaded towards people as i too have my own experiences with drugs when i was younger yet the way i see it, its a choice, not a disease, and society enables people too much with the victim mentality. I pray often that our society will change for the better, but i think the problem is deeper than drugs, i think the problem is the shift towards people viewing having a moral compass being a bad thing. The answer is self control, and everyone struggles with that, and when theyre told by the powers that be there is no right and wrong well the problem compounds. Sorry for the rambling rant

@@98f5 Thank you! It's good to know there are still a few of us. More and more I think the fall of the USA empire is drawing near and the ones that survive will be better for it.

Some will be to lack of demand. I am sure most people canceled.

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They are specific gang tattoo's that are exactly the same for members of the gang. Normal process after arrested.

@KrisandMike ah the way i read into that is they were just randomly checking people for tatoos and them arresting them if they had a gang tat regardless if they had any other reasonable suspicion of a crime. We also photograph prisoners tatoos here in America

@@98f5 Extraordinary circumstances ​

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Apparently the new prisons will be in secluded areas so that cell phone signals can be jammed as well as other reasons. We shall see.

So far so good 👍

Francisco de Orellana Para hacer uso de este contenido cite la fuente y haga un enlace a la nota original en Primicias.ec: www.primicias.ec/noticias/sucesos/explosion-incendio-discoteca-coca-orellana/

The nightclub fire that killed 2 was in Coca, in the Amazon, almost 300 KM from Quito.

No north of Olon.

Lol perhaps