Ecuadorian Police and Army have taken the famous Litoral prison, in Guayaquil, to search for Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, considered the number 1 criminal in the country and main leader of the fearsome gang of The Choneros. The boss, who also heads the branch of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel in the Andean country, it would be “encaletado” (hidden) inside the prison, as advanced by the General Ricardo Vaca, commander of the Zone 4, who could neither assure nor deny to the Press that Fito escaped from prison before being transferred to the Rock prison.
“The alert is there, but obviously the search is in situ. We estimate that in the next 24 hours the official notification of the deployed units will be known,” Vaca added. Fito disappeared hours before being transferred.
This is the first time since the moderate Daniel Noboa came to power less than two months ago that hundreds of soldiers and police have entered the most dangerous penitentiary in the Americas, known for its massacres and for being the general “commandance” since part of the organized crime that devastates Ecuador is planned. The authorities estimate that at least 460 inmates have died inside from prisons for two years.
It’s impossible to explain why Ecuador has become the epicenter of drug trafficking and the most violent country in the Americas without mentioning Issue, to Los Choneros and partners from Sinaloa. Not only the transfer of cocaine to Europa y USA, Extortions, homicides and kidnappings also mark their records, which have increased in recent years. To make matters worse, Los Choneros were singled out at the time by the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, investigative journalist murdered by Colombian hitmen 10 days before the polls opened.
The first measure taken then by the government of the previous president, Guillermo Lasso, It was the declaration of the state of emergency. And the second, the transfer of Issue to the Litoral prison.