Leader of Ecuadorian Drug Symblear with US Targets Arrested in Spain 4 Years After Wreaking Death
One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers was captured on Sunday, after several years of spree and death and moved to Spain.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said that Wilmer Chavarria, also known as “Pipo,” was kidnapped in the Spanish city of Malani in collaboration with the Spanish police. In a message on X, Spain’s National Police posted a photo of Chavaria wearing a black and green suit as he was escorted by police to a pickup truck.
Chavarria is believed to be the leader of Los Lobos, a drug-trafficking group of approximately 8,000 people He designated a terrorist organization is the United States. Los Lobos have been linked to political assassinations in Ecuador and have also been accused of working with Mexico’s New Generation Cartel.
Noboa said that Chavariaria will die in 2021 during the coving epidemic, he got a new identity and moved to Spain, where he met the gold mines in Ecuador.
Ecuador was one of the most peaceful countries in South America in the early 2010s. But the nation of 18 million people has become a sponge for murders and other violent crimes, as it becomes an important transit point for cocaine produced in Colombia and Peru. Drug trafficking gangs have attacked Presidential elections, Municipal officials and journalists as they fight for control of ports and coastal cities.
Chavarria’s capture comes as Ecuadorians Vot turendum, where they will be asked if the country’s constitution should be amended to allow foreign countries to maintain military bases in Ecuador.
Noboa argued that this amendment is necessary to improve drug cooperation with countries like the United States and increase pressure on drug traffickers.
US last year you have been called lobos Being the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador and sanctioned by “PIPO.”
Earlier this year, another leader of Los Lobos, Carlos D, was arrested Friday at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo. Better known as Alias ”El Chilo,” he was the second-in-command of the crime and “looked for the most important target.”
Which is a crime gang violence It continues to follow the succession in June of the King’s Court in the largest cities in the country, Adolfo Macíaswho leads the Los Choneros Gang, after escaping from his maximum security prison in 2024. In July, the Ecuadoran government Macias incorporated In the United States, where he is charged with drug and firearms trafficking.
US authorities say Los Lobos emerged as an offshoot of Los Choneros, which rose to power independently in 2020 when the assassination of a Los Choneros leader left cracks in the group’s chain of command. Lobos is a suspect in the assassination of Ecuador’s 2023 government Fernando Villavicencioand members of the gang are said to be charged with deadly prison break-ins in addition to drug trafficking, racketeering and mining for rent and illegal mining operations.
