The Government of Ecuador, led by Daniel Noboa, is considering the temporary entry into the country of international special forces to strengthen the fight against transnational organized crime and insecurity, the National Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency reported on Wednesday.

In a statement, he pointed out that the Government proposes, “temporarily and in the context of the declared war against narcoterrorism, the incorporation of special forces from allied countries to support and enhance the actions of the Armed Forces and the National Police.”

“Mafias and drug trafficking operate on international networks, so it is necessary to act together to fight them more effectively,” he said.

In that sense, Noboa ordered the Foreign Ministry that, “respecting the constitutional framework and using the corresponding diplomatic channels,” make the approaches to coordinate efforts and establish cooperation agreements for this objective against insecurity in Ecuador.

The letter does not detail which nations the approaches will be made.

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“Confronting a common enemy – the mafias and organized crime – requires unity and firm decisions. This proposal, along with other actions led by the government (…), seeks to strengthen the security of the country,” he says.

In that context, it urges the National Assembly to pronounce on this and other initiatives, such as the partial reform of article 5 of the Constitution that seeks to eliminate the prohibition on the establishment of foreign military bases in the country.

Last October, Noboa sent the draft constitutional reform to the National Assembly to open the door to the re-establishment of foreign military bases in Ecuador, prohibited by the Constitution promulgated during the mandate of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), which forced the United States to leave the Manta base in 2009.

Noboa had already announced last September its intention to promote that constitutional reform to allow the installation of foreign permanent military bases again, as part of its actions in the “internal armed conflict” it declared in January 2024 against organized crime.

The National Assembly must process the constitutional reform project, which, if approved, must be endorsed in a referendum.

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The Presidency assured in October that it had the favorable resolution of the Constitutional Court so that this change in the Magna Carta is processed as a partial reform, considering the court that it does not restrict constitutional rights and guarantees, but refers only to insecurity in Ecuador.

Ecuador and the United States currently maintain maritime cooperation agreements for the capture of vessels that transport large amounts of cocaine from the Ecuadorian coast to North America and Europe.

Some of these prohibitions have been carried out by the United States Coast Guard in international waters, to later hand over the detainees and narcotics to the Ecuadorian authorities within their jurisdictional waters, according to the Ecuadorian Navy.

Likewise, both countries also signed last year a commitment act for the delivery to Ecuador of two patrol boats 33.5 meters long of the

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