{"id":575070,"date":"2025-11-16T23:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T23:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:45:24","slug":"leader-of-ecuadors-los-lobos-drugs-gang-captured-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575070\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader of Ecuador&#8217;s Los Lobos drugs gang captured in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The leader of one of Ecuador&#8217;s biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been captured in an operation involving Spanish police, Ecuador&#8217;s president Daniel Noboa has said. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wilmer &#8220;Pipo&#8221; Chavarria, the head of Los Lobos, was detained in the city of Malaga, according to Spain&#8217;s National Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Noboa said Chavarria had faked his own death, changed his identity and hidden in Europe while continuing to control criminal operations in Ecuador, including illegal mining and ordering murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His family had claimed in 2021 that he had died from a heart attack due to Covid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Ecuador and the US have designated Los Lobos (The Wolves) as a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leader of one of Ecuador&#8217;s biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been captured in an operation involving Spanish police,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-575070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115562042019382015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}