...the Working Group has received information concerning cases...of private or independent contractors implicated in torture...we have observed that in some cases the employees of private military and security companies enjoy an immunity which can easily become impunity...[In Honduras] measures would authorize private security guards to intervene including to shoot delinquents...[In Ecuador a] transnational private security company was performing counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics tasks from the military base in Manta; tasks that fall within the exclusive competence of agents of the United States armed forces...