How cartel hitman used a food pic to hunt down Ecuadorian beauty queen and brazenly murder her in broad daylight



Cartel hitmen utilized a food photo posted on Instagram to hunt down an Ecuadorian beauty queen and murder her in broad daylight, according to police. Investigators believe that the 23-year-old model was gunned down because of her previous relationship with a married drug lord.

Shocking surveillance video shows the moment that a beauty pageant contestant was murdered inside a restaurant in Quevedo, Ecuador.

CCTV footage shows Landy Párraga Goyburo eating a meal at a restaurant with a man on Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, a masked assailant burst through the front door to shoot and kill the model. A second gunman secures the front door. After the beauty model was shot three times, both men are seen fleeing the crime scene. Goyburo is left in a pool of her own blood before dying.

Authorities suspect that the lethal hit job was ordered by the spouse of a drug lord, whom Goyburo was rumored to have a fling with.

In December, Goyburo was reportedly mentioned in a text message conversation between now-deceased drug trafficker Leandro Norero and his accountant – Helive Angulo.

"If my wife comes across anything about her, I’m screwed," Norero allegedly wrote to his attorney in 2022. "My friend, her name cannot come out anywhere. Otherwise, my world will come crashing down."

The Attorney General’s Office was reportedly investigating Goyburo's finances, but she was never charged with any crime.

Norero would later be arrested and then killed in prison just six months into his incarceration.

Goyburo has not publicly commented on Norero or his purported criminal organization.

Ecuadorian investigators believe that a food pic shared on Instagram tipped off the alleged cartel hitmen on Goyburo's location. Goyburo – who has more than 175,000 followers on her Instagram page – posted a photo of octopus ceviche to her social media account.

Goyburo had been in Quevedo to attend a wedding last Saturday, according to Ecuavisa.

Goyburo competed in the 2022 Miss Ecuador beauty contest, where she represented the Los Rios province.

In her final Instagram post made on Wednesday, Párraga wrote: "The world is an echo, what you send into it, you get out of it."

(WARNING: Graphic video)

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Authorities reportedly ignore migrant moms illegally selling fruit along dangerous highways, babies in tow



Migrant women with babies strapped to their backs are selling fruit along dangerous roads and highways in New York City, largely ignored by authorities, the New York Post exclusively reported Saturday.

"These children are constantly exposed to toxic fumes and the possibility of a catastrophic accident that could kill or maim them and their families," Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) wrote in a letter to Mayor Adams, imploring him to have the NYPD intervene, the outlet also reported.

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell reportedly told Holden their goal is to educate migrants and gain voluntary compliance rather than arrest them.

"We don't want to be on the street. What we want in this country is a real job," a 25- year-old woman called Veronica told the Post.

Veronica reportedly illegally migrated to the the United States three months ago from Ecuador. She now is selling fruit cups at a deadly intersection in Queens, her 3-year-old daughter strapped to her back.

Veronica met 20-year-old fellow mother Maria, also from Ecuador, while the two were engaged in the dangerous endeavor. Maria's child, who she also straps to her back while selling, is just a year old. Veronica lives in Brooklyn; Maria lives in Jamaica, Queens.

Sales involve weaving through idling cars temporarily stopped at red lights.

Another woman interviewed by the Post, 39-year-old Llosa, earns money the same way, and acknowledges the dangers involved. Llosa brings along her 12-year-old son. The mother-son duo arrived illegally just one month ago. They are also from Ecuador. They sell at another location in Queens along a ramp by the Van Wyck Expressway.

"It scares me for him and for me. But I need to do it to occupy my mind and earn money. Who is going to make money for us to have food if not me," Llosa told the Post.

The sellers buy the fruit and drinks at local markets and flip it for profits. Llosa estimates she makes about $70 a day in profits.

Meanwhile, neighboring counties are taking legal action to stop New York City's Mayor Eric Adams from bussing migrants into their communities, as CBS News reported Sunday.

Molly Schaeffer, Mayor Adams' director of asylum seekers operations, told lawmakers in a private briefing Thursday that more than 900 migrants had arrived on Monday alone, the New York Daily News reported. More than 4,300 migrants had arrived the week before.

Orange County and Rockland County declared states of emergency in advance of Title 42's end when Mayor Adams announced his intention to bus incoming migrants to the suburbs, as TheBlaze reported.

Suffolk County's legislature is announcing its plans to stop Adams from sending migrants to their communities at a news conference slated for Sunday at 11 a.m.

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At least 116 fatalities result from gang battle at an Ecuadorian prison, with at least 5 reportedly beheaded



A fight among gangs in an Ecuadorian prison has left at least 116 dead and 80 injured in what authorities are describing as the worst penitentiary massacre in the nation's history, according to the Associated Press.

The outlet noted that at least five of the deceased were reported decapitated, officials said Wednesday.

Authorities ascribed Tuesday's violence at the Litoral penitentiary to gangs connected to international drug cartels battling for control of the facility, according to the AP.

President Guillermo Lasso noted at a news conference that the what was taking place at the facility was "bad and sad" and that he could not at the moment guarantee that authorities had recovered control, according to the outlet.

"It is regrettable that the prisons are being turned into territories for power disputes by criminal gangs," he said, noting that he would act with "absolute firmness" to recover control of the prison and prevent the violence from spreading to other prisons, the outlet reported.

The violence involved firearms, knives and bombs, officials noted, according to the AP.

"In the history of the country, there has not been an incident similar or close to this one," former president of the nation's National Rehabilitation Council Ledy Zúñig said, according to the outlet.

Officials reported earlier that the episode was tied to a dispute involving the "Los Lobos" and "Los Choneros" prison gangs, the AP noted.

Former director of Ecaudor's military intelligence Col. Mario Pazmiño said the violence reveals that "transnational organized crime has permeated the structure" of the country's prisons, and he said that Mexico's Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels operate via local gangs.

"They want to sow fear," he told the outlet on Wednesday. "The more radical and violent the way they murder," the more they accomplish their objective of control, he noted.