Report on underground clinics treating drug addiction, alcoholism, and homosexuality

csmonitor.com reported that more than 500 people have been rescued in Ecuador this year from 20 clinics that physically and psychologically abused patients in the name of ‘treating’ drug addiction, alcoholism, and homosexuality.

Electric shocks and beatings are among the documented “treatments,” and two people died at clinics last year. Dozens of people in Ecuador are being prosecuted for crimes including kidnapping and torture.

“We are talking here about a mafia, a network that operates on a national level, violating human rights in every province,” said Ecuador’s openly gay health minister, Carina Vance, last month in announcing the latest results in the country’s renewed push to shutter clandestine clinics. “We have lesbians who have reported what the clinics called ‘sex therapy,’ but which consists of being raped by men.” Read Article

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