U.S. retirees found affordability in Ecuador. What happens when crisis hits?Chris Kenning, USA TODAYJanuary 30, 2024 at 5:30 AMMilitary and police officials present 22 tons of drugs seized after an operation in Quevedo, Ecuador, on Jan. 22, 2024, part of a government response to what president Daniel Noboa called an “internal armed conflict.”At her house in Ecuador’s third largest city, its colonial buildings framed by the Andes mountains, LaRahna Hughes’ phone buzzed repeatedly with messages from relatives and friends back in the United States.Are you OK? Are you getting out of the country? It was early January, and Ecuador’s president declared…
