Massacres, Alliances, and Betrayals: Inside the Gang War That Tore Ecuador's Tiguerones Apart

Massacres, Alliances, and Betrayals: Inside the Gang War That Tore Ecuador's Tiguerones Apart

Massacres, Alliances, and Betrayals: Inside the Gang War That Tore Ecuador’s Tiguerones Apart About 20 armed members of the Tiguerones criminal group lurked in the hills on the outskirts of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s port hub and largest city, on a day in March. They had a clear goal: to take out their enemies, who were also, technically, Tiguerones.In the early afternoon of March 6, the assassins broke into local homes, shooting dead their targets at…

A forceful operation carried out on May 16, 2025 by investigative and tactical units of the National Police disbanded a cell of the transnational organized crime group "Los...