The Bolivian security forces activated this Friday the search efforts for José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias ‘Fito’, the leader of the criminal gang ‘Los Choneros’ in Ecuador, given the possibility that he is in this country.

The Deputy Minister of the Interior and Police, Jhonny Aguilera, told EFE Bolivia has assumed a “nominal relationship” that those who fled from prisons in Ecuador a few days ago including ‘Fito’, to “perform search and location activities.” They also referred to Fabricio Colón Pico, considered one of the leaders of the ‘Los Lobos’ gang, also on the run and for whom there is also a search alert.

Police do not rule out that Interpol will be informed of the search for the alias ‘Fito’

“Because we understand that (those people) are part of transnational criminal organizations, we are interested in monitoring and monitoring these activities,” he indicated.

Aguilera also said that once Bolivian security forces have “news” about the location of ‘Fito’ or the fugitive prisoners, they will report to the Ecuadorian government if they are in Bolivia.

Likewise, the deputy minister emphasized that both Bolivia and its neighbors “have porous borders,” which makes it “difficult to control legal or illegal entry activities into the country.”

On January 7, it was announced that ‘Fito’ had escaped when the intention was to transfer him from the regional prison of Guayaquil to isolate him in the adjacent maximum security prison of La Roca, as part of the beginning of the President’s government plan Daniel. Noboa wants to regain control of prisons.

Colombia on edge

On Friday, January 12, Commander Helder Giraldo said: “It is possible that Fito has entered Colombia,” during an interview with W Radio.

The information about the leader of Los Choneros was also echoed in other Colombian media, such as the newspaper El Tiempo, which stated that investigations reveal that alias Fito has ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Subsequently, according to intelligence sources, the analyzes concluded that Fito will not come to Colombia, where he knows the authorities They follow his trail and where he could be killed, as happened to Júnior Alexander Roldán Paredes, alias JRthe Colombian authorities said.

Expelled from Argentina

The Relatives of fugitive drug trafficker Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, ‘expelled’ from Argentina for immigration reasonsconfirmed on Friday the Minister of the Government of Ecuador, Mónica Palencia.

After the disappearance of alias Fito from the regional prison, a wave of attacks and violent actions took place in several Ecuadorian cities, such as the kidnapping of police officers, murders, explosives, burning vehicles, the takeover of a television channel by a group of thirteen armed men are now held and riots occur in at least seven prisons, with around 200 hostages later released. (JO)