MercoPress

Ecuador extradites alias “Fito” to the United States

Ecuadorean drug trafficking gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito” was extradited late Sunday to the United States. The head of the “Los Choneros” organization was considered one of the ...
InSight Crime

The Fall of Fito: What It Means — and Doesn’t — for Ecuador’s Underworld

Ecuadorian security forces captured the country’s most notorious criminal leader in a crucial — though largely symbolic — win in its “war on gangs.” A joint operation by police and military on June 25 ...
Sky

Where is Fito? Ecuador's notorious drug lord who escaped the prison in which he lived like a king

In his prison cell, drug lord Adolfo 'Fito' Macias lived like a king. Then one day, he vanished. A state of emergency in Ecuador was declared after his escape from prison, and the government battled ...
InSight Crime

Fito: The Rise and Fall of Ecuador’s Most Wanted Crime Boss

This is the story of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito,” one of Ecuador’s top crime bosses and the leader of a powerful criminal group called the Choneros. As a young man growing up in the ...