Ecuador: video captures the moment of the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio

journalist and presidential candidate Ecuador Fernando Villavicencio, 59, was assassinated on Wednesday, President Guillermo Lasso reported, noting that “organized crime has come a long way.”

Villavicencioof the center movement builddied when he was shot by hitmen when he was leaving a coliseum in the north of Quito after leading a campaign rally.

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“Outraged and shocked by the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. My solidarity and my condolences with his wife and his daughters,” he said. Lasso through the social network X, formerly Twitter.

He president He added that “for his memory and for his fight, I assure you that this crime will not go unpunished” and that “organized crime has come a long way, but the full weight of the law will fall on them.”

A video of the moment of the murder circulates on social networks.

#Videoexact moment when Fernando Villavicencio is murdered.#Ecuador pic.twitter.com/Pu21Knnmdh

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Ecuador has suffered an onslaught of crime linked to drug trafficking in recent yearswhich almost doubled the homicide rate to 25 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2022.

Villavicencio he was one of eight presidential candidates for the early general election to be held on August 20.

The journalist and former member of the National Assembly dissolved in May by Lasso appeared second in the intention to vote with 13.2%behind the lawyer Luisa González (26.6%), the only woman in the running and close to the former socialist president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), according to the most recent Cedatos survey.

The newspaper El Universo, the country’s main newspaper, pointed out that Villavicencio was assassinated “hitman style and with three shots to the head.”

Lasso summoned the Security Cabinet to the presidential headquarters, as well as the heads of state organizations such as the highest National Court of Justice to “deal with this fact that has dismayed the country.”

Source: Elcomercio

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