“They wear bulletproof vests and helmets to practice journalism, although they are not in Ukraine or the Gaza Strip. They cover news from Ecuador, where violence linked to drug trafficking transformed their job into a high-risk profession.
Killings between prisoners, murders in the streets, shootings, car bombs, political crimes. And the cartel war for drug loot is also being waged against reporters: three were murdered in 2022 in unclarified circumstances, according to NGOs, and about 15 have received death threats so far this year.”
