Arrest of Top Ecuador Drug Lords Boosts Noboa Amid Crises (1)

Two men allegedly behind the attack on a Guayaquil television station that made global headlines and triggered Ecuador’s war on gangs have been arrested in Spain, giving President Daniel Noboa a much needed boost amid a severe electricity crisis.

Spain’s federal police arrested William Alcívar and Alex Alcívar, the leader and No. 2 of the Tiguerones drug trafficking organization, in Catalonia. Ecuadorian officers participated in the arrest, according to Ecuador’s Interior Ministry.

Authorities accuse them of murder, organized crime, extortion and contract killings and of ordering both the January attack on the broadcaster and the subsequent murder of the prosecutor ...