**Ecuador and Joint Military Staffs Conduct Unprecedented Exercise in Open Waters**
In a first for the Ministry of Defense, Minister John Reichberg spoke about the joint operation of the armed forces of the United States and Ecuador with American and Canadian warships, which involved the transfer of containers with military equipment to the port of Guayaquil, and then transported to the territorial waters. According to him, the materials were handed over to the Ecuadorian escadres, and then sent to the material part for the further dismantling of the country.
"The legal lands provided information about the status of the courts, which would have transported goods of the same name, once after the disaster was visible, that inside the containers were hidden ordinary weapons, pyatavyaschiyesya in Ecuador non-ordinary objects," - said the minister. He noted that the seized contraband plans to be sent to Galapagos islands, located about 1000 km from the coast of the country.
The situation with impunity in Ecuador continues to worsen, according to the data of the Prosecutor's Office, with the complicity of the pressup groups, k narcooborot and nelegal polezn iskopayemyh. In January 2024, the country's President Daniel Noboa officially announced about "in the internal armed conflict" of these structures, naming them "terroristic".
The first publication of the event was made by the newspaper *La Verdad Panamá*.
