Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'
Source: BBC
Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'
26 June 2025
Vanessa Buschschlüter
Latin America editor, BBC News Online
Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country's most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar.
Macías, also known by the alias "Fito", is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for Ecuador's transformation from a tourist haven to a country with one of the highest murder rates in the region.
He is also suspected of having ordered the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in 2023.
Police tracked him down to what they described as an underground bunker below a luxury home in the city of Manta.
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Adolfo Macías Villamar was taken to a maximum-security jail (MAURICIO TORRES/EPA)