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Los Lobos (gang)
Los Lobos (English: ''The Wolves'') is an Ecuadorian criminal organization that specializes in drug trafficking and working as hitmen for international partners or allied groups. Los Lobos began as a splinter group of the Los Choneros drug cartel, but broke away in 2020 after the death of Jorge Luis Zambrano, along with Los Chone Killers and Los Tiguerones. The group has over 8,000 members and mainly operates in cities of Latacunga, Cuenca, and Machala, and also in the province of Pastaza. Los Lobos participates in the cocaine exports in Ecuador. History Los Lobos began as a splinter group of the Los Choneros drug cartel. After the assassination of Jorge Luis Zambrano, the gang's leader, in 2020, a vacuum was left in the organization's leadership. Due to their weakened position, several gangs, including Los Lobos, broke away and formed a new alliance to combat them. They referred to themselves as the Nueva Generación. Members of Los Lobos were involved in several priso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecuadorians
Ecuadorians ( es, ecuatorianos) are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Ecuadorian''. Numerous indigenous cultures inhabited what is now Ecuadorian territory for several millennia before the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth century. The Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador is one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. The Valdivia culture is another well-known early Ecuadorian culture. Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, as did sub-Saharan Africans who were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic by Spaniards and other Europeans. The modern Ecuadorian population is principally descended from these three ancestral groups. As of 2010, 77.4% of the population identified as " Mestizos", a mix of Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry, up from 71.9% i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Luis Zambrano
Jorge Luis Zambrano González (3 October 1981 – 28 December 2020), also known by the alias ''Rasquiña'', was an Ecuadorian drug trafficker. He was the leader of Los Choneros from 2007 until his murder in 2020. Early life Zambrano was born on 3 October 1981 in Manta, Ecuador. Criminal career Zambrano became the leader of Los Choneros after the murder of their founder, Jorge Véliz alias "Teniente España". In 2008, he was arrested for the first time by the police in an anti-narcotics operation, but he was released a year later as he had not received a sentence. In September 2011, he was captured again by the police, this time in Guayaquil for his participation in the murder of a man in the Manabí Province. According to the police, Zambrano was involved in at least 14 murders. In 2012, he was accused of murder again, this time of another inmate who was held in the same prison as him. On February 11, 2013, Zambrano escaped with 17 other members of Los Choneros from La R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organizations Established In 2020
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from the Greek word ''organon'', which means tool or instrument, musical instrument, and organ. Types There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and educational institutions, etc. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector simultaneously, fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. A voluntary association is an organization consisting of volunteers. Such organizations may be able to operate without legal formalities, depending on jurisdiction, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Villavicencio
Fernando Alcibiades Villavicencio Valencia (; 11 October 1963 – 9 August 2023) was an Ecuadorian journalist, trade unionist, and politician who ran for president of Ecuador in the 2023 Ecuadorian general election. He served as a member of the National Assembly (Ecuador), National Assembly from 2021 until the dissolution of the legislative body on 17 May 2023, which caused the 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis and a snap election. Prior to his political career, Villavicencio was an investigative journalist covering corruption and violence in Ecuador. A critic of former president Rafael Correa, Villavicencio was in exile in Peru after legal issues following his public critiques of the Correa administration. He spent several months imprisoned until all charges were dropped in February 2018. Having unsuccessfully run for the National Assembly 2017 Ecuadorian general election, in 2017, Villavicencio was elected 2021 Ecuadorian general election, in 2021, representing the national co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassination Of Fernando Villavicencio
On 9 August 2023, eleven days before the 2023 Ecuadorian general election, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated after leaving a campaign rally in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. One assailant was killed during the attack. Several bystanders, including security personnel and a legislative candidate, were injured. Background Villavicencio was an Ecuadorian politician and a member of the National Assembly prior to its dissolution following president Guillermo Lasso's invocation of . That constitutional provision triggered a general election, in which Villavicencio was a leading presidential candidate; at his highest level of support in late July, a ''La República'' poll found Villavicencio polling in second place with 13.2%, behind former assemblywoman Luisa González in first place with 26.6%, although polling a month later saw that number slightly reduced, putting him in third or fourth place. A day before his death, he made a report to the Ministry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guayas Province
Guayas () is a coastal Provinces of Ecuador, province in Ecuador. It is bordered to the west by Manabí Province, Manabí, Santa Elena Province, Ecuador, Santa Elena, and the Pacific Ocean (as the Gulf of Guayaquil); to the east by Los Ríos Province, Los Ríos, Bolívar Province, Ecuador, Bolívar, Chimborazo Province, Chimborazo, Cañar Province, Cañar, and Azuay Province, Azuay; to the north by Los Ríos Province, Los Ríos and Bolívar Province, Ecuador, Bolívar; and to the south by El Oro Province, El Oro and the Pacific Ocean. With a population of over 3 million people, it is the most populous province in Ecuador. In terms of area it is the List of Ecuadorian provinces by area, seventh largest province in the country. The main port of Ecuador, Guayaquil, is located within the province. Geography Guayas' natural terrain is very diverse. The province has no elevations, except for the Coastal Range (Ecuador), Coastal Range, which starts in Guayaquil and goes to Manabí Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esmeraldas Province
Esmeraldas () is a province in northwestern Ecuador. The capital is Esmeraldas. The province is home to the Afro-Ecuadorian culture. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: *Mestizo 44.7% * Afro-Ecuadorian 43.9% *White 5.9% *Indigenous 2.8% * Montubio 2.4% *Other 0.3% Governance The province has a governor who is appointed by the President. In 2013 Paola Cabezas was appointed as the Governor by President Rafael Correa. She served for three years until she resigned and she was succeeded by Gabriel Rivera López who was also appointed by President Correa. Cantons The province is divided into 7 cantons. The following table lists each with its population at the time of the 2001 census, its area in square kilometres (km2), and the name of the canton seat or capital. Statoids.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Domingo, Ecuador
Santo Domingo de los Colorados, often simply referred to as Santo Domingo (Quechua: Tsachila), is an Ecuadorian city and seat of the canton that bears its name and the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province. It is the fourth most populous city in Ecuador, with a population of over 460,000, and is an important commercial and industrial center. Etymology The name, "de los Colorados", refers to a local ethnic group, the Tsáchila, and the custom of men in that tribe to dye their hair with extract of the achiote plant; hence "Santo Dominigo de los Colorados" or "Santo Domingo of the Dyed." This group, which is indigenous to the area, is recognised with a substantial statue near the town center. Geography Santo Domingo is located approximately 133 km west of Quito at an elevation of 625 m. Santo Domingo lies in the foothills west of the Andes. It is important stopping point on the road from Quito to the Pacific coast. The city also connects other lowland cities like Quevedo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 2021 Guayaquil Prison Riot
The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed and several others were injured in the riot that took place in that prison. It was the deadliest prison fight in the country's history and one of the deadliest in Latin American history. Background The confrontations between the criminal gangs began after the death of Jorge Luis Zambrano, leader of the Los Choneros gang, one of the largest and oldest criminal organizations in the country. Zambrano was assassinated on 20 December 2020 and as a result of the incident, several groups that were previously part of Los Choneros separated from the structure and began to attack their former leaders. These groups became the bands of Los Chone Killers, Los Lobos, Los Pipos and Los Tiguerones. According to the news portal Primicias, the confrontation that led to the massacre at the penitentiary would have occurred in response to the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guayaquil
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Litoral Penitentiary
The Litoral Penitentiary ( es, Penitenciaría del Litoral), known officially as Center for Social Rehabilitation of Men No. 1 of Guayaquil ( es, Centro de Rehabilitación Social de Varones N. 1 de Guayaquil) is the largest prison in Ecuador. It is located from Vía a Daule, on the outskirts of Guayaquil. The prison has twelve pavilions and has a capacity of five thousand inmates, although by July 2021 it housed around ten thousand. It is part of the Guayas Penitentiary Complex, which also includes the Guayas Regional Rehabilitation Center, La Roca Prison and the Provisional Detention Center. History In 1954, in Guayaquil, President José María Velasco Ibarra decided to undertake the construction of the most ambitious prison project in the country to date, thanks to the income obtained from the collection of export tax. To do this, he asked the Argentine Roberto Pettinato for advice, who had been in charge of the National Directorate of Penal Institutes of Argentina for seven y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
