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One of Ecuador's most feared gangsters is believed to have escaped from prison, a government spokesman said Monday as hundreds of police officers searched a maximum security jail.
A 60-day state of emergency has begun in Ecuador after convicted gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar vanished from his prison cell.
Ecuador's "most-wanted prisoner," the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, Fito, has disappeared from the jail where he was being held, according to authorities.
Ecuador's most dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, has escaped from the high security Guayaquil prison. He is head of Los Choneros linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel
The prison cell of the leader of the infamous Los Choneros gang, known as "Fito", was found empty.