US designates Ecuador’s Chone Killers gang as ‘terrorist’ organisation
Key takeaways
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the gang had also been classified as a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the gang has also been classified as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”.
- The move against the Ecuadorian street gang is part of a broader campaign by US President Donald Trump’s administration on organised crime and drug trafficking in Latin America.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the gang had also been classified as a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Alleged members of the Chone Killers gang are presented to the media during a police operation in Duran, Ecuador [File: Marcos Pin/AFP]By AFP and Reuters Published On 2 Jul 20262 Jul 2026The US State Department has designated the Ecuadorean gang Chone Killers as a foreign “terrorist organisation”, imposing sanctions on a crime group that Washington has accused of carrying out attacks on civilians and public officials.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the gang has also been classified as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist”.