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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.
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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
6 November: During a police operation in Machala, five members of Los Lobos gang were arrested. [33] 10 November: Álex Salazar, leader of Los Tiguerones, was released from Litoral Penitentiary after serving 60% of his sentence. [34] After Salazar was released, clashes broke out at Litoral Penitentiary, leaving three dead. [35] 12 November:
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 ...
On 28 September 2021, a dispute between Los Lobos and Los Choneros in the Litoral Penitentiary, Guayaquil, led to a riot that killed 123 inmates and injured over 80, becoming the deadliest prison riot in Ecuador's history. [4] In that riot, members of the Los Tiguerones gang attacked inmates in pavilions 1 and 3 and beheaded five of them. [5]