How Cocaine Connects Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexican Cartels

2026-03-19 - 14:00

Key Points — Germán Aguilar, known as Lobo Menor and second-in-command of Ecuador’s Los Lobos gang, was arrested in Mexico City’s upscale Polanco neighborhood carrying a fake Colombian passport — wanted for masterminding the 2023 assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio — The arrest illuminates a cocaine supply chain running from Colombian FARC dissident territories