2026年6月3日 / 美国东部时间下午1:27 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
厄瓜多尔警方周三表示，该国西南部一处贩毒热点地区发现了8具装在塑料袋中的尸体，此前有8人于周日失踪。
该地区警察局长加洛·穆尼奥斯上校对记者表示：“已确认发现8具尸体”，尸体是在巴瓦约镇郊区被找到的。
此次发现正值美国支持的军事打击有组织犯罪团伙行动期间，这些团伙已将厄瓜多尔从南美最安全的国家之一变成了最危险的国家之一。
8名部分有亲属关系的人于周日在从道莱前往米拉格罗的途中失踪，米拉格罗位于巴瓦约以南约30英里处。
内政部长约翰·赖姆贝格表示，现场发现的一张字条显示，尚未确认身份的受害者是“洛沃斯”帮派的袭击目标，这是该帮派与敌对帮派“乔内罗斯”团伙争斗的一部分。
2026年6月3日，厄瓜多尔巴瓦约郊区，警察正在搬运装在袋中的尸体。赫拉尔多·梅诺斯卡尔/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
“洛沃斯”（灰狼）和“乔内罗斯”（以乔内市命名）帮派是厄瓜多尔主要的贩毒和敲诈勒索团伙，与国际贩毒集团存在关联。美国于去年9月将“洛沃斯”帮派列为恐怖组织。
米拉格罗州检察官莫德斯托·弗雷雷表示，报称失踪的人员中有两名未成年人，据其家属称，他们是来自道莱的农民，道莱是一处水稻种植区。
厄瓜多尔是全球主要可卡因生产国邻国哥伦比亚和秘鲁70%可卡因运往国际市场的中转国。
为争夺毒品贸易控制权引发的暴力事件激增，尤其是在瓜亚基尔和曼塔等港口城市，大部分毒品都经这些城市走私出境。
今年1月，警方在瓜亚基尔所在的瓜亚斯省隔壁的圣埃伦娜省发现了6名骑摩托车出游的年轻人的尸体。
厄瓜多尔去年记录的暴力死亡人数超过9200人，创下历史新高。
作为特朗普总统坚定盟友的右翼总统丹尼尔·诺沃亚已实施宵禁，并向多个省份部署军队，以打击帮派活动。
近日美国突击队员与厄瓜多尔军队开展联合行动，旨在摧毁该国沿海地区一处由涉嫌恐怖主义贩毒组织运营的疑似犯罪窝点。
今年3月初，美国与厄瓜多尔启动针对该国“已列为恐怖组织的团伙”的联合军事行动。
2024年，厄瓜多尔最大贩毒集团“乔内罗斯”头目阿道夫·马西亚斯从最高安全级监狱越狱后，于2025年6月被重新抓获。此后该国帮派暴力活动仍未停止。2025年7月，厄瓜多尔政府将马西亚斯引渡至美国，他在美国面临多项贩毒和枪支犯罪指控。
8 bodies found in plastic bags with note left at scene in narco-trafficking hotspot in Ecuador
June 3, 2026 / 1:27 PM EDT / CBS/AFP
Eight bodies have been found in plastic bags in a southwestern narco-trafficking hotspot, where eight people went missing on Sunday, Ecuadoran police said Wednesday.
“It has been confirmed that there are eight bodies” found on the outskirts of the town of Babahoyo, Col. Galo Munoz, the area’s police chief, told reporters.
The discovery comes in the midst of a U.S.-backed military crackdown on the organized crime gangs that have transformed Ecuador from one of South America’s safest countries into one of its deadliest.
Eight people, some of whom were related, disappeared on Sunday while traveling from Daule to Milagro, about 30 miles south of Babahoyo.
Interior Minister John Reimberg said a note found at the scene suggested the victims, who had yet to be identified, were targeted by the Los Lobos gang, as part of its war with the rival Los Choneros outfit.
Police officers carry out the recovery of bodies found in bags on the outskirts of Babahoyo, Ecuador, on June 3, 2026. Gerardo MENOSCAL /AFP via Getty Images
Los Lobos (The Wolves) and Los Choneros (after the city of Chone) are among Ecuador’s main drug trafficking and extortion gangs, with ties to international cartels. In September, Los Lobos was designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
Modesto Freire, the state prosecutor in Milagro, said two of the people reported missing were minors and, according to their families, they were farmers from Daule, a rice-growing region.
Ecuador serves as a gateway to international markets for 70% of the cocaine from neighboring Colombia and Peru, the world’s leading producers of the drug.
The fight for control of the drug trade has led to an explosion of violence, particularly around the port cities of Guayaquil and Manta, through which much of the drugs are smuggled.
In January, police found the bodies of six young people who had gone for a motorbike ride in Santa Elena province, next to Guayas province, where Guayaquil is located.
Ecuador recorded over 9,200 violent deaths last year — a record high.
Right-wing President Daniel Noboa, a staunch ally of President Trump, has imposed curfews and deployed the military to several provinces to try to stamp out gang activity.
American commandos recently joined Ecuadorian troops in a joint mission aimed at dismantling a suspected criminal hub operated by an alleged narco-terrorist organization along the country’s coast.
In early March, the United States and Ecuador launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the country.
Criminal gang violence continues unabated in Ecuador following the recapture in June 2025 of the country’s biggest drug lord, Adolfo Macías, who leads Los Choneros, after his escape from a maximum-security prison in 2024. In July 2025, the Ecuadoran government extradited Macías to the United States, where he faces multiple drug trafficking and firearms charges.
