The government of Ecuador awaits the arrival in Quito of his wife and children. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the leader of the drug gang Lthe Choneros, who lived in a luxurious urbanization in the Argentine province of Córdoba, where they were arrested by the police. Fito was the detonator days ago of the security crisis that has shaken his country since his escape from a prison in Guayaquil. Authorities suspect he may have left Ecuador. Colombia is on alert. President Gustavo Petro He assured that if he is captured he will be extradited immediately.
In this context, Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuárez, 48, and her three children were arrested. According to the newspaper The nation, the far-right Government made the decision to expel them without delay. They had arrived in the city of Córdoba, about 600 kilometers north of the capital, on January 5, two days before Fito escaped from prison. The drug dealer’s nephew and a babysitter also lived in the select Golf Club.
The Argentine authorities were in a sense forewarned because the Ecuadorian police had warned about the possibility that the leader of the Choneros would try to enter this country. From that moment on, the local police began to work in collaboration with the Ecuadorian prosecutor’s office to initially locate relatives of the suspects.
The damage capacity of Los Choneros has grown exponentially in a few years in line with their alliance with the Mexican drug cartel. Sinaloa. Fito was serving a 34-year prison sentence. His escape triggered a wave of violence in other prison units and forced President Daniel Noboa to declare the “internal armed conflict“, a figure that gives special prominence to the Armed Forces to combat the 22 gangs that operate in the country and that have been classified as terrorists.
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The case of Fito’s wife has brought back the memory of what happened almost three decades ago in Argentina when María Victoria Henao, the widow of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, and her son were detected in the capital. “At three in the morning on December 24, 1994 we entered the Bauen Suite Hotel in the heart of Buenos Aires. The place seemed desolate and dark to me. I decided that we would not stay,” she wrote in My life and my prison with Pablo Escobar.
In Argentina she changed her name to Isabel Santos. Her son Juan Pablo was renamed Juan Sebastián Marroquín. In 2017, a court case was opened against them for alleged money laundering that has not yet been closed.