He The Government announced today the expulsion from the country of two Ecuadorian citizens that they had arrived in the country last week and that they would be the lawyers of the dangerous drug trafficker “Fito” Macias, whose family had tried to settle in a country house in Córdoba last January.
“Hugo Alfredo Cantos Centeno and Ronald Francisco Cantos Sacon, with a history of arms trafficking and ‘lawyers for the Ecuadorian narcoterrorist Fito Macías, came to Córdoba to look at the economic interests of the family that was expelled in January. The Ministry of Security of Córdoba notified and the Prefecture accompanied and verified that they boarded the ship heading to Uruguay and they were banned from entering the country, scheduled for tomorrow. “They are not returning to Argentina again,” said the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, through her X account.
Through a statement, the ministry detailed: “Argentina does not accept any further ramifications of international drug crime. Under this objective, together with the Ministry of Security of the province of Córdoba, through the Argentine Naval Prefecture (PNA), we accompanied the lawyers of the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías ‘Fito’ Macías Salazar, whose family was expelled in January, to leave the country so that they never return.”
According to the Ministry of Security, Hugo Cantos Centeno and Ronald Cantos Sacón, Ecuadorian citizens, arrived at the Córdoba International Airport on Tuesday, April 23on board a Lan Perú flight, according to information collected by the National Migration Directorate (DNM).
“Both have judicial records related to trafficking in firearms, chemical, nuclear or biological weapons,” they stated from the national portfolio and added: “Through criminal intelligence tasks, we were able to detect that they had canceled a flight with a Córdoba-Lima-Guayaquil itinerary, which led us to assume that they were looking to stay in our country. Given this suspicion and their background, we took them out of the country.”
The expulsion of Fito’s family in January
The wife and children of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the fearsome drug trafficker who spread terror in Ecuador, they lived in an exclusive country house in Córdoba since the beginning of January. The Government made the decision to expel them from the country and they were deported on an Air Force plane.
The relatives, a young man who introduced himself as a friend of the drug lord, but who could be a guard, a nephew of Fito Macías and a family employee, who served as a babysitter, were detained in an operation carried out by the Cordoba Police and the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
As he was able to reconstruct THE NATION From official sources, the relatives of Fito Macías, leader of the Los Choneros criminal organization, arrived in Argentina on January 5. And, based on the information that the investigators have, they went directly to Córdoba, where they had bought a house in the exclusive Country Valle del Golf, on the outskirts of the capital city.
Official sources identified the wife of the drug lord as Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuarez, 48 years old, and the children like Jair Adolfo Macías Peñarrieta22; Michelle Macías Peñarrieta21; Ilse María Macías Peñarrieta12, and Lian Sejam Macias Peñarrietaout of 4.
But the wife and children of Fito Macías They were not alone. Also identified in the police operation were Denny Yadira Laines Basurto, 22, who worked as the children’s nanny; Javier Macías Alcivar, a nephew of the drug lord, and Ángel Zambrano Chiquito, a family friend.
“Fito Macías’s nephew, the friend and the employee expressed their willingness to leave the country along with the expelled citizens [la esposa y los cuatro hijos del capo narco] by the Argentine authorities,” explained sources who participated in the operation in the country of Córdoba.
The leader of Los Choneros is attributed links to the Mexican Sinaloa cartel. He escaped from Guayaquil prison on January 7. He was serving a 34-year prison sentence. After his escape, an escalation of violence began and the declaration that Ecuador was in “internal armed conflict”.
After confirmation that the people who lived in the exclusive country were relatives of the drug lord, the National direction of Migration (DNM), an organization that depends on the Ministry of the Interior, intervened in the case and decided to cancel the provisional residence and expulsion from the country of Fito Macías’ wife and children.
On January 18, Ecuadorian citizens traveled on an Air Force plane that made available the Minister of Defense, Luis Petrito the El Palomar Air Brigade, and they were deported to Ecuador.
