ISABELA, Ecuador — Charles Darwin described it as the most desolate of the Galápagos Islands, an almost extraterrestrial outpost crawling with giant tortoises and marine iguanas found nowhere else in the world, where smoke curled out of volcanic craters and lava flowed black.
How drug traffickers made the Galápagos Islands their gas station
The beloved UNESCO World Heritage site is being pulled into the booming cocaine trade that’s fueling Ecuador’s violence
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Arturo Torres
January 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST