In #Ecuador — a govt closely aligned with Trump on #counternarcotics enforcement — the admin had a willing partner, eager to learn what the alleged trafficker could tell them about his employers.
Tufiño, then 41, stepped off the #US #military plane at the Quito airport on the morning of Oct 18 in shackles, cut & bruised from the attack but walking on his own, acc/to Col. Carlos Ortega, then the director of anti-narcotics for Ecuador’s national police.