How like the mafia like “Freddy Krogs” and “Al -Ghusasin sellers” are terrified of Ecuador through blackmail and murder

Ecuadorians go to the polls on Sunday under the shadow Violence of drugs A disturbing explosion in the number of local gangs and mafia.

flood Cocaine From Colombia and Peru through Ecuador ports I drew from the mafia from Albania to Italy to Mexico to this Indezes of Inde ‘, which was safe.

But it also created a large group of local groups with amazing names and fierce reputation.

“Los Freddy Kruegers” causes nightmares in the streets “, the headquarters of the ugly women” prisons “and” The Peaky Blinders “try to govern the waves of the main coastal area.

Together they and many other groups are terrifying citizens through blackmail, kidnapping and killing campaigns.

In January and February, Ecuador recorded more than every hour, according to numbers from the Ministry of Interior.

The mafia admits “it has gained an area; it is complicated with his fighting,” the Guaiana police chief, Pablo Davila, admits.

The security situation was placed at the Presidential Rice Center on Sunday between the current Daniel Nuboa and the left -wing candidate Louisa Gonzalez.

Nubua announced The state of emergency and widespread soldiers In the streets and prisons full of violence, which led to a slight decline in killings in 2024 of the previous year. The president took a procedure last year yet The gunmen stormed and opened the fire In a TV studio, the bandits threatened random executions of civilians and security forces. The Public Prosecutor who was investigating the attack was later Shot.

“They demanded $ 15,000 not to kill us.”

One of the merchants remembers the day when a bomb exploded in its restaurant in Guaayakil, the capital of the economy and crime in the country.

“They said they were from the mafia. They demanded $ 15,000 for not killing us,” the woman, who asked not to call her safety, told AFP.

Several local gangs cooperated with much larger gangs than Mexico and Colombia, as well as the Albanian and Italian mafia.

But local gangs have also been broken and their emerging because they are looking for a piece of their pie.

“The war has ended from the lands. There are no known leaders before. Everyone wants their independence.”

The situation causes a serious headache for Ecuadorian security services, which must now combine intelligence and work against representatives from the constantly changing actors.

Security expert, Carla Alvarez, compared the situation with the chaos of the 1990s.

“We see an association for small, less solid groups. This has already happened in Colombia in the 1990s after the death of Pablo Escobar,” she said.

In Ecuador, the hierarchical series began to collapse in 2018 when one of the largest organizations was divided.

The death of the leader of “Chuniros” Jorge Luis Zambrano in 2020 left an electric void.

The effect is now perceived even in Quito relatively safe, once a haven for drug violence, but increasingly on the front lines.

There, the restaurant employee receives marinilla threats and extortion via WhatsApp. “I prevent them,” she said.

But there is no ignorance of violence in the streets of its neighborhood.

The police and the army appear regularly, looking for weapons and drugs. She said, “There were about two dead people here in the corner.”

Carolina Andradi, Minister of Municipal Security, admits that without a wish for hard Guyaquil, the capital is seen as “a safe space for coming and hiding.”

With the emergence of new alliances and actors, there may be worse.

Andradi said that the multiple smaller gangs are now trying to join “larger organizations to obtain greater presence, legitimacy and regional monitoring.”

At least two prominent Ecuadorian gangs leaders have been targeted by the United States this year. Earlier this month, the fugitive leader of “Los Sheronos”, who relied on strikes, bribes and military weapons to do commercial actions He was accused in New York City On charges of importing thousands of pounds from cocaine to the United States. Jose Adolvo Makas Villarar – whose name is the title “problem” He escaped from prison in Ecuador last year, not in the American nursery.

In 2024, and The US Treasury imposed sanctions On “Los Shuniros”.

Earlier this year, the leader of one of the largest crime unions in Ecuador, “Los Lubus” was At home In the coastal city of Portovijo. The armed forces said in a statement that Carlos de, who is widely known by his name “El Chino”, was the second in “Los Le Popos” and “is a high value.”

the The United States announced last year Los Lobos To be the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador.