Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeno, who led an air force special operations unit, was the passenger in a van when more than 20 shots were fired.

A leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates Los Lobos was arrested Friday at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo, the military said. Carlos D, widely known by his alias "El Chino ...

Carlos D was the second-in-command of Los Lobos (The Wolves) and "considered a high-value target," the armed forces said in a statement.

After the authorities relocated five leaders of the mega-band Los Lobos, who reportedly caused the last bloodbath in the Turi prison in southern Ecuador, incidents were recorded in four prisons in ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by ...

Los Lobos are the second largest megaband in Ecuador, with around 8,000 members. This gang is credited with the latest massacre in an Ecuadorian prison, which left at least 20 dead. After that ...

The Lobos’ national leader, Wilmer Chavarría Barré, alias “Pipo,” fled the country and is believed to lead the organization from Europe, relying on regional leaders to unite the group. At the same ...