Powerful Ecuador drug lord ‘Fito’ extradited to US

The powerful Ecuadorian gang, Adolfo Maki Villamar, has been handed over to the United States to counter drug trafficking and weapons.

Known as “Fito”, it was It was restored in JuneAlmost a year after his escape from a severe security prison, where he was serving a 34 -year prison sentence for a series of crimes.

His lawyer told Reuters that he will appear in a US federal court on Monday, where he will decide not guilty of international charges of drug trafficking and weapons.

Macías was the leader of Los Choneros Gang, associated with strong criminal organizations from Mexico and Balkan. He was also suspected of assassinating presidential candidate Fernando Philavicinsio in 2023.

Los Chuniros blames Ecuador from a tourist haven to one of the highest killings in the region.

More than 70 % of all cocaine currently produced in the world passes through Ecuador ports. The country is located between the best cocaine sources in the world, Colombia and Peru.

In June, Macías police tracked what they described as an underground warehouse below a luxury house in Manta. He was transferred to La Roca, the maximum security prison. At that time, Ecuador President Daniel Nuboa praised the security forces to absorb it and said he would be delivered to the United States.

The prison commission said that he was removed from prison in Ecuador earlier on Sunday to be delivered to the American authorities.

“Mr. Macas, we will come tomorrow before the Brokelin Federal Court … where he will decide not guilty,” his lawyer Alex Chatt told Reuters. “Then, it will be held in a specific prison.”

The Ecuadorians voted in favor of allowing citizens to hand over a referendum called President Nubua, who pledged to abandon the increasing crime.

In March this year, Nubua BBC said He wants us, European and Brazilian armies to join his “war” against criminal gangs.