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Petro Linked to Drug Lord Fito: Ecuador President Reveals

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Tensions Mount as Allegations of Cartel Ties Fuel Ecuador-Colombia Border Security Crisis A diplomatic firestorm has erupted between Quito and Bogotá, casting…

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The Ecuadorian ruler declared that Petro “met with members of the Citizen Revolution, who have links with alias Fito”

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The deteriorating relationship between the presidents of Colombia and Ecuador breaks down without remedy. In the most recent episode, Daniel Noboa has linked Gustavo Petro to the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, in an interview with the Colombian magazine Semana. Petro has immediately rejected the remarks since the summit of progressive governments of Barcelona to which he attended this weekend. Continue reading

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Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Saturday rejected accusations made by his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, who indirectly linked him to José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the drug kingpin of the Los Choneros cartel. The Colombian president's response came after an interview Noboa gave to Semana magazine, in which he claimed that Petro met with members of the Citizen Revolution movement who allegedly had ties to the criminal kingp…

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, rejected on Saturday the accusations of his Ecuadorian counterpart, Daniel Noboa, who linked him to the drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito”, in the midst of the growing deterioration of relations between the two countries. Through his X account, Petro denied any relationship with the criminal leader. “I do not know this Fito or his relatives. I have only visited Ecuador to attend pr…

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The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, rejected this Saturday the statement made by his counterpart from Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, who links him to the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, in a new episode of the deteriorating relationship between the two countries. «Nothing, I don’t know this Fito or his friends. I have only [...] The entry Petro rejects mention of Noboa that links him to the Ecuadorian drug traff…

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President Daniel Noboa raised the crisis with Colombia by dismissing new dialogues with Gustavo Petro and launching direct accusations against the Colombian president, in a verbal escalation that adds to the recent bilateral frictions. Indictments to Petro and a door to new conversations Noboa stated that he will not resume talks with Petro and maintained that the Colombian president “dance merengue with the mafia,” a phrase that marked the high…

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TV Azteca broke the news on Saturday, April 18, 2026.
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