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Ecuador Captures Gang Leader Whose Prison Escape Set Off Violence
José Adolfo Macías, known as “Fito,” will be extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted on accusations of trafficking drugs ...
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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 key—but mostly symbolic—win in its “war on gangs.” ...
Ecuador Recaptures Gang Leader 'Fito' Indicted by U.S.
Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito," disappeared from the Guayaquil prison where he was being held in January 2024, amid an explosion of violence including the on-air invasion of a television station ...
California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador
The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, ...
One of ‘Ecuador’s most wanted’ arrested in CT for murder
Richard Cabrera, 50, was arrested Tuesday in Oxford nearly 14 years after the murder of a woman in Lujo, Ecuador.
Spain's Telefonica sells its Ecuador unit at $380 million
Spanish telecom company Telefonica said late on Friday it had reached an agreement with Luxembourg-based Millicom ...
Fito - Ecuador's most-wanted fugitive - found hiding under kitchen counter after a year on the run
"Fito" had cult status among the public and was known for throwing parties in prison, where he had access to alcohol and ...
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Better than gold: how Ecuador cashed in on surging cocoa prices
In Ecuador, farmers who bet on cocoa beans rather than bananas, the country's top agricultural export, are cashing in as a ...