The drug trafficker “Fito” accepts his extradition to the United States

The biggest equator drug drugs, Adolfo Macias nicknamed “Fito”, agreed on Friday to be extradited to the United States, where the prosecution accuses him of cocaine and weapons traffic, announced the national court of justice of the South American country. Nevertheless, Considered one of the most dangerous criminals of Ecuador. Meanwhile, “Fito” had been arrested at the end of June in his hometown of Manta, 350 km southwest of Quito, after a year and a half of the run. Meanwhile, Head of one of the country’s main gangs. the Choneros, which reigns in particular over cocaine trafficking, he was also associated with drug trafficker “fito” accepts his the assassination in August 2023 of one of the main candidates for the Ecuadorian presidential election, Fernando Villavicencio, who had reported death threats on his part.

Dressed in the orange uniform of the prisoners. the cut beard, “Fito” attended the hearing on Friday from his cell, in videoconference, and answered the judge: “Yes, I accept” (extradition). This decision opens the way to its transfer. “Once the extradition (…) has been accepted. the procedure for its transfer to the United States will take its course”said the court in a statement. The Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa will have to order the delivery of “FITO” to American justice. Additionally, The latter will become the first Ecuadorian to be extradited since the reinstatement in equator of this procedure by referendum in 2024. a measure defended by Noboa in his fight against organized crime.

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His escape in early 2024 had sparked drug trafficker “fito” accepts his an unprecedented wave of violence in the country. killing dozens of deaths and generating mutinies in several prisons as well as street fights triggered by gangs. Daniel Noboa then declared the country in “internal armed conflict”. deployed the army to try to neutralize the twenty criminal groups involved. Due to its situation between Colombia. Peru – the world’s largest producing countries of cocaine – and its strategic ports on the Pacific, the equator has become in recent years the theater of violent clashes for control of the territories intended for the delivery of cocaine, whose main destinations are the United States and Europe.