Ever since Ecuador’s most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, the mystery of his whereabouts ...

Ecuadorian security forces captured the country’s most notorious criminal leader in a key—but mostly symbolic—win in its “war on gangs.” ...

Ecuadoran forces have revealed how they captured the country’s most-wanted man, drug lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías, more than a ...

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Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country’s most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar. Macías, also known by the alias “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang ...

A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he ...

A year and a half after his prison escape, José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar was found hiding in a secret basement in the ...

Ecuador said Friday it will probe the finances of any judge or prosecutor who releases a suspected violent criminal, amid allegations of bribery frustrating the government's fight against ...

Ecuador and Switzerland are signatories to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, which for 55 ...