Ecuador’s Outspoken Anti-Narco Presidential Candidate Assassinated In Broad Daylight

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Ecuador’s Outspoken Anti-Narco Presidential Candidate Assassinated In Broad Daylight
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Ecuador has declared a countrywide state of emergency for 60 days the morning after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down at a campaign rally in the capital, Quito.

Video of the assassination is widely circulating, showing an assassin firing multiple shots at close range while Villavicencio entered his vehicle on a crowded streets. He had just spoken at a high school before an audience of young supporters. 

“When he stepped outside the door, he was met with gunfire,” a member of Villavicencio’s campaign team said of the candidate. “There was nothing to be done, because they were shots to the head.”

Villavicencio, a legislator in the National Assembly, has been tireless in speaking out against organized crime, drug trafficking, and government corruption. Among his talking points on the campaign trail has been that Ecuador is a “narco state” being led by the “political mafia”.

This is why in the aftermath of his killing, it’s being widely blamed on those very criminal elements. He was by far the most vocal candidate against the drug traffickers and corrupt dealings with the state. He was also a former investigative journalist, having years ago exposed government corruption and bribery deals related to the oil industry.

The suspected gunman died in police custody after being wounded at the scene in a shootout with security personnel. The attack additionally injured nine people and two police officers.

Meanwhile, The New York Times has summarized of the country’s recent and growing crime woes:

“Foreign drug mafias have joined forces with local prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history,” and further notes “Homicide rates are at record levels.”

he report continues, “Today, the violence is often horrific and public, meant to induce fear and exert control: There are regular reports of car bombings, beheadings and children being gunned down outside their schools.”

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