Unknown gunmen killed presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio – running on a strong-on-crime, anti-corruption, anti-China platform – on Wednesday night before a massive crowd outside of a campaign event in Quito, Ecuador.
at a movie theater reportedly three minutes from the scene of the assassination on Wednesday but canceled his appearance given the emergency.
“For his memory and his struggle, I assure that this crime will not remain with impunity,” Lasso promised in a statement on Twitter. “Organized crime has made it very far, but the full weight of the law will fall on them.”that police had arrested six people in connection with the attack. Also on Thursday, a bizarre video featuring about 20 men in all-black body coverings and wielding large firearms began circulating on social media. The menthemselves as part of the “Los Lobos” organized crime group, which profits largely from cocaine trafficking and illegal mining, and claimed responsibility for the assassination.
“We want to leave clear to the entire Ecuadorian nation that every time corrupt politicians do not keep their promises to establish, when they receive our money, which is millions of dollars, to finance their campaign, they will be put on leave,” an unknown man in the video says, apparently“We assume responsibility for the events occurring this evening and they will happen again when the corrupt do not keep to their word,” the man claimed, before threatening another presidential candidate,...
No public evidence exists of any ties between Villavicencio and criminal gangs at press time. Even under Correa, the government had made no claims of the former journalist engaging in organized crime.
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