Ecuador’s biggest drug lord ‘Fito’ extradited to US • FRANCE 24 English
A do masias known as FTO was taken out of Laroka, a maximum security prison, and handed to US officials. Ecuador’s prison authorities shared these pictures before the country’s most infamous drug lord, was extradited so he could be tried in a federal court in Brooklyn. He’s charged with cocaine and weapon trafficking. The criminal gang he heads, the Chuneros, is accused of committing murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and controlling Ecuador’s prisons. He’s tied to drug cartels and mafias in neighboring countries. He’s the first to be extradited from Ecuador since the procedure was voted by Parliament last year. My duty is to not turn away and spare myself the effort of fighting criminals who thought for years that they owned our country. The man who used to work as a cab driver years ago was serving a 34year sentence in a maximum security prison for murder and drug trafficking when he escaped in January of last year. This led to unprecedented violence across the country. Mutinies in prison. Dozens of people were killed and a TV crew was taken hostage by gangs during a live broadcast. FTO suspected in the 2023 assassination of one of the main candidates running for the presidential election. Once recaptured, he was returned to prison and is now incarcerated in the
The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito,” to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a 2024 escape from a maximum security penitentiary, the country’s prison authority said.
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Now he is in dreamland.
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Awesome. Another distraction for trump to use.
The good news is, you're going to America…😮
Waiting for Fito to confirm his relationship with Petro to diminish his sentence
New York though? Won’t he be walking the streets with ‘no bail’ necessary? Wouldn’t trust NY to do the right thing, Viktor Bout was convicted in NYC of terrorism and illegal firearms dealing and he’s a free man right now thanks to Ja Biden.
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