{"id":1615,"date":"2025-06-26T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/drug-kingpin-fito-ecuadors-most-wanted-man-has-been-captured-says-ecuadors-president\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:36:31","slug":"drug-kingpin-fito-ecuadors-most-wanted-man-has-been-captured-says-ecuadors-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/drug-kingpin-fito-ecuadors-most-wanted-man-has-been-captured-says-ecuadors-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug kingpin \u2018Fito,\u2019 Ecuador\u2019s most wanted man, has been captured, says Ecuador\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclmqko000v26p3a9iecjkc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Ecuador\u2019s most wanted man and leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose Adolfo Macias, was captured on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s President Daniel Noboa.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclo2ia0005356m15ofs4km@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Macias, known as \u201cFito,\u201d escaped from a prison in Guayaquil in January 2024 while serving a 34-year sentence for homicide and narcotics trafficking.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclo2ia0006356m5q8jbppo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            His escape unleashed a wave of violence in Ecuador, prompting Noboa to declare an internal armed conflict and designate Los Choneros and 21 other criminal groups operating in the country as terror organizations.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclo2ia0007356muad8wsyy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In February 2024, the US Department of the Treasury sanctioned Los Choneros and Macias over their drug trafficking and violent activities in Ecuador and across the continent.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclmtsu0000356my1awawm8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Noboa said Ecuador is working to extradite him to the US and is awaiting a response from American officials.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmcclmqko000w26p3a5ij182u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <i>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador\u2019s most wanted man and leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose Adolfo Macias, was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitalarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}