Argentina Takes Action: Arrests, Deports Equador Fugitive Family
The wife and children of Ecuador’s most-wanted fugitive, druglord Jose Adolfo Macias, have been arrested in Argentina and have been deported to Ecuador.
The Los Choneros gang leader, known as “Fito”, escaped from a prison in the port city of Guayaquil this month, leading to a surge in gang violence across Ecuador that prompted President Daniel Noboa to declare a 60-day state of emergency in the country, which is home to 17.8 million people.
According to Argentina’s security minister Patricia Bullrich, “We are proud that Argentina was a hostile territory for a group of drug dealers who could’ve come to settle here. Mr Fito had a sentence of 38 years and he escaped, leaving a trail of blood and death in Ecuador.”
The news about Fito’s wife Mariela Macias, her three children, a nephew, a family friend and a nanny deportation was made known, by Bullrich, on friday, during a press conference.
Mariela arrived in Argentina two weeks ago just before her husband escaped. In December, they bought a house in an exclusive neighbourhood of Cordoba, in central Argentina, in cash.
The authorities are still investigating whether Fito only sent his family to Argentina or if he was or is in the country.
