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Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin is headed to the United States.
Jose Adolfo Macías, better known as “Fito,” agreed Friday to be extradited from Ecuador to the US, where he is wanted by the US Justice Department on charges of drug and weapons trafficking.
The head of the criminal organization Los Choneros accepted his extradition during a hearing at the National Court of Justice.
In a statement to CNN, Alexei Schacht, Macías’s attorney in the US, said that his client agreed to be extradited on the advice of his Ecuadorean lawyer.
“We are working hard to defend his rights and help him and his…
