Drugs cartel kingpin, body double and mystery jailbreak: The narco who plunged Ecuador into national emergency
A drug ganglord who ran Ecuador’s most powerful cartel from behind bars is the man responsible for causing a national crisis, with a state emergency declared across the South American country.
Despite being incarcerated since 2011, the walls around his prison cell failed to prevent Adolfo Macías Villamar from successfully operating the feared Los Choneros gang, which has been linked to drug trafficking and murder.
Yet his with President Daniel Noboa forced to impose a nightly curfew after Ecuadorian unleashed a wave of deadly violence.
