<p>The U.S. and Ecuador carried out a joint operation targeting drug trafficking operations in the South American country, authorities in both countries said on Friday, with the U.S. calling the move &#8220;lethal kinetic operations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Neither the U.S. Southern Command, a branch of its military that oversees forces in Latin America, nor Ecuador&#8217;s defense ministry, said if anyone was killed or captured in the strike, which Ecuador dubbed operation &#8220;Total Extermination.&#8221;</p>
<p>The operations used helicopters, aircraft, river boats and drones to locate and bomb a drug traffickers&#8217; training camp in north-east Ecuador near the Colombian border, Ecuador&#8217;s defense ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>The camp belonged to the Comandos de la Frontera (CDF), a Colombian crime group made up of FARC dissidents, and had a capacity for 50 people, it added.</p>
<p>Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has made a military crackdown on organised crime a cornerstone of his administration, and his government imposed tariffs on its larger neighbor Colombia, accusing it of not doing enough to fight drug trafficking.</p>
<p>He is set to travel to Miami this weekend to take part in the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;Shield of the Americas&#8221; summit, which brings together many right-wing leaders across the region with a focus on regional security and organized crime.</p>
<p>&#8220;The United States is a key ally in this fight,&#8221; the defense ministry said.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the request of Ecuador, the Department of War executed targeted action to advance our shared objective of dismantling narco-terrorist networks,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.</p>
<p>The operation followed a similar U.S-Ecuadorean operation announced by the U.S. Southern Command earlier this week.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington, Alexandra Valencia in Quito and Sarah Morland in Mexico City; Editing by Christian Martinez and Diane Craft)</p>

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