Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Los Lobos began as a splinter group of the Los Choneros drug cartel. After the assassination of Jorge Luis Zambrano, the gang's leader, in 2020, a vacuum was left in the organization's leadership. Due to their weakened position, several gangs, including Los Lobos, broke away and formed a new alliance to combat them.
Ecuador has been struggling to bring violence under control amid a 90-day state of emergency declared to tackle 22 gangs, including Los Lobos, which are considered terrorist groups.
Los Choneros and their main rival, Los Lobos, are believed to be allied with Mexican drug cartels in a war for dominance over Ecuador’s drug trade. Los Lobos saw an opening amid a violent power ...
José Adolfo Macías Villamar (born 30 September 1979), [1] also known by the alias Fito, is an Ecuadorian drug lord and the current leader of Los Choneros cartel. He assumed leadership in 2020 following the murder of his predecessor Jorge Luis Zambrano.
The United States in February sanctioned another major Ecuadorean gang, Los Choneros. Los Lobos has thousands of members and began as a gang of hitmen working under Los Choneros, the Treasury ...
The police believe that these firearms were going to be used to kill the leaders of the other four prison gangs that had formed an alliance against Los Choneros. News of the firearms seizure alerted rival gang members and they promptly organized and launched a coordinated attack against the leaders of Los Choneros in four different prisons. [4]
On 9 May, a riot broke out between members of rival gangs Los Lobos and R7 inside Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo, central Ecuador. [1] Forty-four inmates were killed. [3] [1] The prison is situated 80 km (50 mi) north of Quito. [1] A hundred and twelve inmates tried to escape during the riot, but were apprehended inside the prison grounds ...
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadorean police said on Thursday that 49 kidnapping victims were rescued from the Los Lobos crime gang in a mining region of the southern Azuay province. Ecuador is struggling ...