Mexico arrest of Ecuador gang leader tied to Villavicencio assassination
Mexican authorities arrested Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales, a senior figure in Ecuador’s Los Lobos cartel, in Mexico City on a forged Colombian identity; he is wanted over the 2023 assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and is linked to drug trafficking, extortion and homicide, with Interpol red notices and trilateral cooperation between Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico highlighted.
