Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen talks about making the documentary ‘Drug War in Ecuador,’ an on-the-ground look at how institutions, gangs and ordinary people are navigating the country’s ongoing crisis ...

Watch the documentary at pbs.org/frontline and in the PBS App starting Nov. 11, 2025, at 7/6c. It will premiere on PBS stations (check local listings) and on ...

He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug ...

“You just can’t call something war to give yourself war powers,” said Claire Finkelstein, a professor of national security law at the University of Pennsylvania. “However frustrated we may be with the ...

President Donald Trump, just nine months into office, has all but fulfilled his campaign promise to bring the war on drugs to the cartels’ doorstep. The president’s recent strikes on alleged drug ...

Once upon a time, a real estate developer named Donald Trump understood the folly of the war on drugs. “We’re losing badly the war on drugs,” he said at a luncheon held by the Miami Herald in April ...