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Ecuador's president, Daniel Noboa, has said he wants to change his country's constitution to allow the presence of foreign military bases.

He made the proposal 15 years after the last US soldiers left the base of Manta, on Ecuador's Pacific coast, and returned it to the Ecuadorean military.

President Noboa argues that Ecuador needs foreign military help to fight transnational crime gangs which are using the country as a major transit route for drugs smuggled from South American to Europe and the US.