José Adolfo Macías Villamar (born 30 September 1979),[1] also known by the alias Fito, is an Ecuadorian drug lord and the current leader of Los Choneros cartel.
[citation needed] In 2011, he was arrested for drug trafficking and organized crime and was imprisoned in La Roca Prison.
[2] When Jorge Luis Zambrano, the previous leader of Los Choneros, was murdered in December 2020, Macías and Junior Roldán became the successors to the criminal syndicate.
[4] He was serving a sentence of thirty-four years in the Litoral Penitentiary for organized crime, drug trafficking, and murders.
Fito and Junior Roldán, another leader of 'Los Choneros' who was killed in 2023 in Colombia, had "differentiated and preferential treatment by the authorities".