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The Skinny: Once Latin America's safest nation, Ecuador now has a murder rate 50 times the US average. One of only a few countries to adopt the Dollar, the lack of narco police and Pacific ports offering direct shipping routes to the US and Europe via the Panama Canal, Ecuador is a dream for cartels from neigbors Colombia and Peru seeking to move product and launder cocaine profits. Despite constitutional bans on foreign military bases, the US once kicked out, have returned to bomb cows there.