GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Oct 7 — Six suspects in the August assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate and anti-corruption crusader Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison...
Security forces guard before the start of a caravan in support of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Daniel Noboa, of the National Democratic Action Party, in Guayaquil October 6, 2023. — AFP picGUAYAQUIL , Oct 7 — Six suspects in the August assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate and anti-corruption crusader Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison yesterday, officials said.
Villavicencio, a 59-year-old journalist, was gunned down as he left a campaign rally in the capital Quito days ahead of the first round vote. “In the next few hours I will return to Ecuador to attend to this emergency. Neither complicity nor cover-up, here the truth will be known,” Lasso said on X, formerly Twitter.
Guayas 1 is one of five facilities that make up a large prison complex in Guayaquil, a key port city that has become one of the country’s increasingly bloody centres of a turf war between rival drug-trafficking gangs.The assassination of Villavicencio, who had been polling in second place, rocked Ecuador days ahead of national elections in which corruption and the country’s declining security situation were major themes.
More than 430 inmates have died violently since 2021, dozens of them dismembered and incinerated amid disputes between rival gangs.
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