Converted into centers of operations for criminal gangs, opulent refuges, theaters of horror and morgues. Inside the prisons of Ecuador The drug trafficker created an inferno, whose tongues of fire spread to the streets. The escape of Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, head of the largest drug gang in the country known as Los Choneros, focused […]
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Ecuador: one dead and 48 prisoners escaped after riot in border prison
The National Comprehensive Care Service (SNAI) for Persons Deprived of Liberty, the penitentiary agency of Ecuadorannounced this Monday that it found a deceased inmate and discovered the escape of 48, of whom five have been recaptured, in the Esmeraldas prison, capital of the homonymous province in the northwest of the country and on the border […]
Maduro attacks Milei and advises Noboa in the face of the prison crisis in Ecuador
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The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurooffered this Monday to his counterpart from Ecuador, Daniel Noboaadvice on penitentiary matters to control the wave of violence unleashed in that nation, which declared the existence of a “internal armed conflict” after clashes with irregular groups in prisons and in some areas. “President Noboa, if you want to have […]
Pirates and extortionists “choke” Ecuador’s shrimp industry
He shrimp (shrimp)of which Ecuador is the largest exporter in the world, with 1,060 million tons sold in 2022, it is today one of thes ‘crown jewels’ for criminal gangs that operate mainly in the Gulf of Guayaquil, where they extort both artisanal fishermen and large companies in the sector. According to a report sent […]
Violence crisis in Ecuador hits tourism, but exports resist
The images of the assault on Tuesday at a television station in Ecuadorwhich went around the world, and the subsequent declaration of an “internal armed conflict” in the country have caused the tourism union to see “many canceled reservations” from international tourists, in a blow that they fear will be even worse than the pandemic […]
Guayaquil, a ghost city in the “war” against criminal gangs
In the image of its famous Malecón, the long promenade that dominates the brownish waters of the Guayas River, today strangely emptyGuayaquil, the large port city on the Pacific coast of Ecuador, looks deserted. Access to the gardens along the cement pier overlooking the river is prohibited, and restaurants that usually serve tourists the famous […]
Who is “Fito”, the missing criminal leader and “patron” of drug trafficking in Ecuador
José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito”but also “the boss” as he calls himself in songs in his honor, he is the leader of the band of “The Choneros”, to whom they attribute links with the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, and the protagonist since Sunday of a mysterious disappearance that was followed by a sequence of violent […]
Ecuadorian law enforcement forces have detained 329 terrorists and killed five
The head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of EcuadorJaime Vela, announced this Wednesday that in the operations carried out on Tuesday against the wave of attacks and riots generated by organized crime groups, “329” have been arrested. terrorists” and five have been killed. “We have arrested 329 terrorists, we have killed five […]
Ecuador offers reward to recapture criminal leader ‘Fito’ after escape
José Adolfo Macías ‘Fito’, the leader of ‘Los Choneros’, the largest criminal gang in Ecuador and one of the most dangerous, he was included in the rewards program to capture the most wanted criminals, after he escaped from prison where he was serving a 34-year prison sentence. The program ‘131 Together for Safety’ of the […]
Homicide ratio confirms Ecuador as the most violent country in the region
Ecuador closed the year 2023 with the tragic balance of 7,200 violent deaths, which represents a rate of 45 homicides per 100,000 population and places the country as the most violent of Latin America, according to data from the Ecuadorian Observatory of the Organized crime. The increase in figures shows the new dynamics of violence […]