July 21 (UPI) -- Notorious Ecuadorian pack person Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar has been extradited to the United States, wherever helium is expected to marque his archetypal tribunal quality connected Monday.
President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador confirmed precocious Sunday that Macias, person of the Los Choneros pack and who is besides known arsenic Fito, has arrived successful the United States.
"Goodbye forever, Fito," Noboa said successful a statement to societal media. "Fito is present successful the USA."
The U.S. authorities has yet to corroborate Macias' extradition.
Hasta nunca, Fito.
Fito ya está en EEUU. Esto es gracias a ustedes, ecuatorianos, que dijeron sí a la consulta popular. Espero con gusto las teorías creativas que dirán que no.
Interceptamos también 14 toneladas de droga, eso es 560 millones de dólares menos para el... pic.twitter.com/BQ4hYs75nT— Daniel Noboa Azin (@DanielNoboaOk) July 21, 2025
Macias was recaptured successful precocious June amid a arguable crackdown connected pack unit successful the country, conducted by Noboa utilizing precocious acquired powers granted to him by the National Assembly to combat interior equipped conflict.
Macias was serving a 34-year condemnation for a slew of crimes, including murder, erstwhile helium escaped from Guayaquil's determination situation successful January, arsenic pack unit was erupting successful prisons crossed the nation.
In effect to the violence, Noboa declared the state was successful the midst of an "internal equipped conflict" and launched a nationwide instrumentality enforcement effort targeting cause cartels and gangs aft declaring them terrorists.
Macias was past sanctioned by the U.S. State Department successful February and charged in a seven-count indictment with cause trafficking-related offenses successful Brooklyn, N.Y., successful April.
If convicted successful the United States, helium faces up to beingness successful prison.
Noboa described Macias' extradition arsenic validation of his crackdown that has received planetary disapproval from quality rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, implicit concerns that the caller powers airs to the rights of Ecuadorians.
"This is acknowledgment to you, Ecuadorians, who said yes to the referendum. I eagerly await the originative theories that volition assertion otherwise," helium said.
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