President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaassured that the alleged drug dealer Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito” is not like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. or Pablo Escobar, since the organization he heads, Los Choneros, does not have a vertical structure, as is the case in some cartels.

“This is not a situation like Pablo Escobar or Chapo Guzman. These are fairly structured organizations and He doesn’t have a head that determines absolutely everything. TO “Sometimes their faces are visible, but it doesn’t work like it used to with drug lords,” he told a journalist. Juan Carlos Lopez in the “Kara a Kara” program broadcast by the TV channel CNN in Spanish.

However, he admitted that during his imprisonment “Fito” had some amenities similar to those of the Colombian Pablo Escobar, with a bathroom, a double bed or a minibar and others.

Ecuadorian authorities are searching for Macias after his escape from a prison in Guayaquil sparked violence in the past 48 days after the government declared a state of emergency and internal armed conflict. Until now, authorities have More than 10 thousand arrests have been registered.

“There are several bosses […] They are watching him, but not only him. This is an organization and we are very strong against the narco-terrorist organization Los Choneros and also against Los Lobos or Los Tigerones,” the president said.

The group “Los Choneros” was associated with the Sinaloa cartel, with whom he is allegedly working to smuggle drugs into the United States.

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Regarding whether his strategy is similar to Nayib Bukele’s in El Salvador, President Noboa said that Ecuador is a different and multicultural country and that It does not intend to build “mega-prisons,” but rather maximum-security prisons.

He assured that his government reduction in daily violent deaths that they were “products of a state overrun by narco-terrorism.”

When asked about statements by Kevin Sullivan, deputy assistant secretary of the US State Department’s Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, who said that Ecuador was considering the possibility of supplying Soviet military equipment to the United States, the Ecuadorian president said that his country will not supply equipment that could be used by Ukraine in a conflict with Russia.

“Initially, it was planned to hand over the scrap that the United States could legally obtain, and after that (…), without violating any international agreement, they were going to distribute it. To our surprise, the US is publicly declaring that this will be considered an armed conflict in Ukraine. Of which we do not want to be a part, of which we also do not want to triangulate weapons and in which “We also don’t want to violate any international treaty,” he pointed.

Noboa said that Russia is Ecuador’s third trading partner and that his country will not triangulate weapons.