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by decree, he designated 22 gangs terrorist organisations and ordered the military to, as he put it, neutralise them. translation: we are practically living - in a state of war against terrorism. these are not organised crime groups, they are terrorists who are financed by drug trafficking, trafficking in people, organs and arms. president noboa says that ecuador is now engaged in an internal armed conflict. but while this explosion of gang violence may have caught the nation off guard, in truth, the storm which has turned ecuadorfrom one of the safest nations in latin america to one of the most violent has been brewing for years. specifically this man. adolfo macias villamar, alias fito, is part of the reason ecuadorfinds itself on the brink of an internal war. he s the leader of a gang called los choneros and escaped his prison cell shortly before his transfer to a higher security wing.