“Today the enemy is another, it is drug trafficking” and 9 other phrases left by Fernando del Rincón’s interview with Guillermo Lasso, president of Ecuador

Lasso will ask Biden for an “Ecuador Plan” 0:42 (CNN Spanish) — Ecuador has been facing a security crisis for months, with prison revolts and the advance of drug trafficking in the country. In this context, President Guillermo Lasso told CNN’s Fernando del Rincón that he will ask for help during the IX Summit of the Americas. Lasso spoke from Los Angeles, where the meeting of American leaders is taking place, and told CNN that he would ask the United States for an “Ecuador Plan”, similar to the one that took place in Colombia years ago. During his time in California, the president of Ecuador also He referred to other issues surrounding his country and the Summit. Here, 10 main phrases from the interview. On the need for an “Ecuador Plan” in terms of security 1. “Today the enemy is another, it is drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, and new technology and new equipment are required to be able to confront it.” Lasso: The US is the host and chose who to invite 1:41 2. “I will tell President Biden and the United States: just as there was a Plan Colombia with Colombia, we need a Plan Ecuador.” 3. “Because it is not possible for the bill to be paid by only one small country, it must be shared with the United States and Europe.” The absence of countries at the Summit of the Americas 4. “We must remember two fundamental bases on which the Summit of the Americas was created: the first is that they be democratic countries that respect human rights, and the second is that they be the host country decides who to invite. 5. “What the United States has done is exercise its right to host and choose who to invite.” The importance of the Summit of the Americas for Ecuador 6. “I have had no problem attending, I think it is very important for Ecuador to be at this summit, to speak to the world about the country’s problems.” Lasso will reveal the truth of the murder of journalists from El Comercio 2:09 7. “Ecuador needs the world to face security problems, lack of employment. We also have to tell the world what we are doing for them. 8. “I I want to compromise with the relatives: at the next State Security Council I am going to speed up the call to declassify this information.” 9. “I would have liked to do it on the first day of government, but the priorities were different.” 10. “There are to apply the law, no matter who it is. It is a moral and ethical obligation of a democratic government with the relatives of the victims and with the victims themselves and their memory. Those who have committed negligence will have to pay legally.”