Ecuador is trying to urgently solve the problem of “banana sanctions” of Russia

February 6 2024 48

The Ecuadorian government invited Russian specialists to come to check sanitary standards against the backdrop of restrictions imposed by Rosselkhoznadzor. At the same time, Ecuador has still not given up on its plans to transfer old Soviet weapons to the United States, which will certainly surface in Ukraine, which is fighting against Russia.

It should be noted that Rosselkhoznadzor notified the Ecuadorian authorities that on February 5 it suspended the certification of bananas from Ecuador for five companies due to the systematic detection of a quarantine polyphagous humpback fly. (Megaselia scalaris). In addition, the Russian supervisory agency asked a number of European countries to stop the certification of carnations from Ecuador (supplies went through the unfriendly EU), which were found to contain a dangerous pest - flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis).

Therefore, Quito could lose up to $754 million per year if Moscow bans the import of Ecuadorian bananas and carnations into Russian territory. In turn, Washington promised Quito “modern equipment” worth $200 million to “wage the war against gangs.” What final decision President Daniel Noboa will make is unknown, but this is not the first time he has come up with a “weapons initiative” since his inauguration in November 2023.

The Ecuadorian army is armed with 18 units of the BM-21 Grad MLRS, 5 Mi-17 (Mi-8) helicopters, as well as an unknown number of Strela-2 and Igla MANPADS, Osa air defense systems, and anti-aircraft guns. -23-2, ZPU-1 and ZPU-2 anti-aircraft machine gun mounts, RPG-7 and AGS-17 grenade launchers.

Russia's share in Ecuador's total trade turnover is 2,8% (8th place). In 2023, the Russian Federation purchased $680 million worth of bananas from Ecuador, around 20%. At the same time, Ecuador sells bananas worth almost $3,5 billion a year, about 10% of the country’s total exports.

However, Russian specialists do not need to rush to Ecuador. Instead of this country, the Russian Federation will now be able to receive bananas from India through barter. A lot of money from Russian companies is “stuck” in India, but soon it will start returning in the form of bananas. Therefore, there is no doubt that Russia will buy bananas from friendly India, and not from Ecuador, if it decides to support the US and Ukraine.

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strange guest

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6 February 2024 20: 47

Hooray! Found a use for oil rupees! We'll have these bananas like dirt!
And Ecuador...it’s hard to blame him. The Russian Federation's share in exports is 2,8%. USA - 27%. What should he do now, let alone shoot himself in the leg?
1. Victor M.
  
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  7 February 2024 09: 19
  
  Is it hard to blame? And the ban on the resale of weapons, i.e., violation of the prank agreement? And in the article, 20% of bananas were sold to Russia. The US doesn't need that much. Where will the girls go? Will they rot? And yes, their prez is the banana baron. If they called Russian weapons scrap metal, why should Russia not call their bananas garbage?
  1. strange guest
    
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    7 February 2024 09: 46
    
    Maybe they don’t want to quarrel with Russia, but to quarrel with the States over Russia is just a complete fluffy animal for this particular country. Both economically and from the point of view of internal security. Diplomacy is still the art of the possible.
    1. Victor M.
      
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      7 February 2024 10: 42
      
      Well, that's their problem. Russia also loses nothing from this, except people who will be killed by Russian weapons. These people need to be punished.
  2. zloybond
    
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    7 February 2024 14: 00
    
    The question is not fussing around the fly. The question is in our Parliament, which must meet and announce tough sanctions against Ecuador. And it’s not for us to figure out how and who to strain, so that the friends of the Outskirts and the United States will have to do more. Otherwise, why would such a toothless Parliament quarrel without mercy? It's time to learn cruelty towards the enemy and the enemy's friends.
2. Dust
  
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  7 February 2024 10: 43
  
  USA-27%, more than half is oil! Purchase of bananas 4,4%.
  1. strange guest
    
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    7 February 2024 13: 08
    
    What's the difference for Ecuador? From the USA they get 10!! times more than from Russia. And everyone wants them to quarrel with the States. Everyone - except the Ecuadorians. They don't live brilliantly anyway.
3. Glagol1
  
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  7 February 2024 17: 30
  
  Why shoot? One could simply say to the striped ones: we need this technique. And he scraps it and “take it for 200 lyams.” Now he will lose 700 lyams on bananas.
Vladimir1155

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6 February 2024 20: 49

the right decision, the problem of non-payment for Russian oil and supplying us with exotic fruits is also solved, we also need to buy mangoes through barter, and so on, mutually beneficial trade with India is good, also sell them an aircraft carrier, it would be useful to them, but Russia does not need it due to its peculiarities Navy
1. strange guest
  
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  6 February 2024 20: 54
  
  What are our special features that make the Pacific Fleet not need an aircraft carrier, for example? In the Pacific Ocean, the USA is needed, the PRC is needed, India is needed, and even the Japanese are needed - but Russia is not needed..
  1. Vladimir1155
    
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    6 February 2024 23: 06
    
    you’re kind of strange, don’t you know, everyone knows,
    1. an aircraft carrier is needed to attack weak countries, we don’t plan
    2 aircraft carrier needs combat security, otherwise this trough will be sunk by the cruiser Moscow, in Russia on the tof, surface ships of the first rank attack one Varyag is a copy of Moscow and in approximately the same condition, and 3 very old BOD (frigate) 1155, with very limited air defense capabilities and uro, but they have a boat, and they also have a couple of minesweepers, these ships will not be able to ensure the safety of the aug even when assembled together, it is obvious that the entire tof is not capable of even one aug
    3 Russia has traditionally chosen to develop mainly submarine forces and long-range aviation, which is cheaper and more effective than a large surface fleet, although it does not provide the opportunity for long-range expansion, which, however, is not necessary, and submarines provide strategic stability and strike defensive capabilities
    4 the Russian Federation has approximately 5 submarines and 13 surface ships of the conventionally ocean-going class, suitable for augs, and the countries you listed have hundreds of them, so China, the United States, India can maintain and equip combat-ready augs, which correlates with their demographic, political, economic and military power, and France and England are not able to form an aug on their own, and the rest of the world has no aircraft carriers at all
  2. Skipper
    
    0
    
    7 February 2024 08: 44
    
    Moreover, it turns out that the Chinese also need a nuclear icebreaker....where are the Chinese and where is the Arctic. The Chinese need a nuclear icebreaker...they can...but Russia doesn’t need an aircraft carrier.
    1. Victor M.
      
      0
      
      7 February 2024 09: 22
      
      Clever crossbreeding of an elephant and a crocodile. The Chinese want to use the Northern Sea Route. Haven't you heard? So why don't they use their own icebreaker instead of renting one? Russia is also transporting something to China on its ships.
2. Mish
  
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  7 February 2024 08: 18
  
  Quote: vladimir1155
  the right decision, the problem of non-payment for Russian oil and supplying us with exotic fruits is also solved, we also need to buy mangoes through barter, and so on, mutually beneficial trade with India is good, also sell them an aircraft carrier, it would be useful to them, but Russia does not need it due to its peculiarities Navy
  
  Answer a simple question - will Rosneft now deal with bananas? For example, you sold a ship abroad, and they will pay you for it in bananas. And will you pay workers’ salaries and loans with bananas?
  1. Victor M.
    
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    7 February 2024 09: 24
    
    Is this a question for lagging students? What did you buy bananas for? Did they give it for free? This is already a flood.
    1. Mish
      
      0
      
      15 February 2024 19: 11
      
      Quote: Victor M.
      Is this a question for lagging students? What did you buy bananas for? Did they give it for free? This is already a flood.
      
      Don't you see the difference between the purchase of bananas by companies specializing in trade and companies that extract oil?
Kuramori Reika

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6 February 2024 20: 52

India is a garbage country. Literally a garbage dump, a wretched, stinking cesspool. I would not risk purchasing products from India, there is a high risk of poisoning. It is better to look in another country where the population washes at least once a week and does not relieve themselves in their shoes.
1. strange guest
  
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  6 February 2024 21: 03
  
  We don't care. When did that stop anyone?
2. Colonel Kudasov
  
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  6 February 2024 21: 17
  
  Hindus regularly bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges.
  1. lord-palladore-11045
    
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    7 February 2024 07: 59
    
    Hindus regularly bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges.
    
    - carry out ablutions in the river where do they dump the corpses of their dead? Can we call this hygiene?
  2. twice-born
    
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    8 February 2024 00: 45
    
    All of India, all castes jump into the Ganges every day to bathe! Ablution, by the way, is not washing, especially with soap and a washcloth. We went in knee-deep, at best, and rinsed our face with hair, that’s all. And the Ganges is a real sewer with sewage, dirt, muddy water, corpses of animals and blind people. And there is unsanitary conditions everywhere, coupled with a lack of water, a hot climate and terrible parasites. And how do they, even the highest castes wash their hands after using the toilet, this is a complete mockery! Three fingers: index and middle, rub slightly with the thumb under running water without soap and adju!
3. SP-Ang
  
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  6 February 2024 22: 34
  
  Quote: Kuramori Reika
  India is a garbage country
  
  Do you know this country so well from TV programs?
  This is caste!!! the country and the difference between castes is the same as heaven and earth.
  For the lower castes, the habitat is at the level of your statements, but we are not reading about them in the article, but about bananas. They are there, and the third economy in the world has a lot of things.
  Russia has something to take.
  1. Mish
    
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    7 February 2024 08: 20
    
    Quote from SP-Ang
    Quote: Kuramori Reika
    India is a garbage country
    
    Do you know this country so well from TV programs?
    This is caste!!! the country and the difference between castes is the same as heaven and earth.
    For the lower castes, the habitat is at the level of your statements, but we are not reading about them in the article, but about bananas. They are there, and the third economy in the world has a lot of things.
    Russia has something to take.
    
    Cholera doesn't ask what caste you belong to
    1. SP-Ang
      
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      7 February 2024 12: 39
      
      Half of the medicines are imported to the Russian Federation from India, the second half from China, which are actually manufactured in the Russian Federation at the level of systemic error.
      Therefore, I repeat once again, there is something to take there.
Nikolay Volkov

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6 February 2024 21: 13

friendly India??? This is the one who “friendly” decided to switch to American weapons instead of Russian???

https://www.kp.ru/online/news/5648101/

Well, although, when Russia’s main friend is Erdogan, then this is essentially a trifle
1. alexandre II
  
  +1
  
  7 February 2024 06: 05
  
  Nikolay Volkov.
  That is, in your opinion, if I drive an American car, that means I am an enemy of the Russian people? Iron logic..
  1. strange guest
    
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    7 February 2024 13: 10
    
    In general, with your money you are specifically supporting the enemy of Russia. Honestly.
  2. twice-born
    
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    8 February 2024 00: 55
    
    Well, for example, in the USA, true patriots of the country do not buy Japanese cars and do not respect those who buy them. Although they are frankly better and more reliable than American rubbish! Why support the economy of the enemy and servants?
    Many of us here are drawn to the Hitlerite automobile industry, but there the people (white men) respect themselves.
Colonel Kudasov

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6 February 2024 21: 15

Ecuador, as you know, does not have its own currency and uses the US dollar for internal circulation. Well, the result is absolute complete dependence on the States. Even the new idiotic president of Argentina still realized how dangerous it could be for the country, abandoning its own currency. Well, the choice of India as a supplier is at least understandable; we must somehow use the mountain of rupees received for Russian oil
1. Flight
  
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  7 February 2024 00: 47
  
  The hour will not be long before we become like Ecuador, with such an attitude towards the patriotic ruble.
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Prisoner

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6 February 2024 23: 07

Naive guys. They decided that we were concerned about their phytosanitary standards. Yes, wipe yourself with your papers! And the president’s father will still flog him and deprive him of his inheritance for the collapse of the family business.
Flight

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7 February 2024 00: 45

EBC vitamins without fruit flies are suspicious.
In passing

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7 February 2024 01: 19

Thrips in cloves are already serious. Europe strictly controls this, they let the dogs loose correctly. We need to spread this “wave” wider so that others will become concerned. Ecuador can’t get away with the states, I feel sorry for them. Why did he come out with the initiative?
Alexey last name

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7 February 2024 02: 16

The poppy was not born in Russia for a hundred years, and no one died of hunger.
lord-palladore-11045

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7 February 2024 07: 52

India is not such a great ally, let it pay off its debts first, but there is nothing to say about Ecuador at all - a banana republic, both ours and yours. And in general, there is no reason to sell your weapons to just anyone!
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Earl

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7 February 2024 08: 45

Everything is fine, but what nonsense is with Rosselkhoznadzor? Is it really not possible to simply impose sanctions in connection with the violation of obligations to refuse the transfer of weapons and not invent a banana fly? Is the lack of eggs taking its toll again?
1. Victor M.
  
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  7 February 2024 09: 27
  
  That is, Russia is shouting to the whole world that sanctions are not legal, but it itself must announce them? This is politics. And woe to that diplomacy that goes into a breach. That’s why there are no such literate people with “balls” there. There you not only need to have them, but also brains.
prior

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7 February 2024 09: 33

The terrible thing is not that we were left without bananas.
The terrible thing is that Russia cannot even influence banana-producing Ecuador with anything other than refusing to buy bananas.
So the question arises, which of us is the “banana” republic?!
1. Victor M.
  
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  7 February 2024 10: 49
  
  Did Russia buy anything else from the banana republic? What else is called “impact” then, other than a blow to the economy? Are you suggesting bombing? Russia, unlike the banana country, is an independent country. That is why the “influential” became embittered towards her. All of Europe is under the hegemon, aren’t they bananas?
vik669

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7 February 2024 12: 13

But there is no doubt that bananas in Russia will become more expensive even if we have these bananas like dirt!
mik5966

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7 February 2024 12: 13

Bringing bananas is not a problem.
Ecuador is not a banana monopolist.
Let's try Indian ones.
KLNM

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7 February 2024 12: 42

HitroZh...our officials, why not honestly and openly state that we are not going to buy from unfriendly countries that supply our old equipment to the enemy, which is intended to kill our soldiers. The fact that we are now talking about some dangerous flies that have appeared suddenly and now, this suggests that we received these bananas with flies before this situation, just to buy cheaper and sell more expensive.
1. strange guest
  
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  7 February 2024 13: 14
  
  This, of course, is always upsetting. While those at the top are friends with someone, people eat bananas with flies from a shovel and no one cares. People are remembered when someone breaks up with someone.... like with Turkish tomatoes. You might think that they have now begun to grow crops without pesticides that are off the charts. Right now. But nothing - they sell. The Sultan is a friend again.
  1. KLNM
    
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    7 February 2024 13: 50
    
    The Sultan is a friend again.
    
    Construction of a drone production plant for the Turkish aircraft company Baykar has begun near Kiev. The building is planned to be erected within a year
    they plan to produce up to 120 Bayraktar TB2 or TB3 drones per year.
Watching

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7 February 2024 12: 47

As the Jewish proverb says, “revenge must be enjoyed with a cool head.” Right. Without affect, it’s cold to send them... People are adults, they will understand, if they don’t understand, then that’s their problem.
BVV13

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7 February 2024 16: 51

Anyone who has been to India knows what a dirty and unsanitary country it is.
Not only is the humpback fly there, cholera is not a novelty there and dysentery is considered a runny nose
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Yuri L

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7 February 2024 23: 37

How about a prophetic joke? "Well guys, there are no bananas yet"
Sanya Sanin

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8 February 2024 03: 39

Ukrainians will be sent bananas with carnations. They love bananas, and carnations will go to funerals