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Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by AllenSpencer: 3:50am On Aug 10, 2023
A presidential candidate in Ecuador who had been outspoken about the link between organized crime and government officials was assassinated on Wednesday evening at a political rally in the capital, just days before an election that was expected to be dominated by concerns over drug-related violence.

The candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, a former journalist, was gunned down outside a high school in Quito after speaking to young supporters.

When he stepped outside the door, he was met with gunfire,” said Carlos Figueroa, who worked for Mr. Villavicencio’s campaign and was at the rally. “There was nothing to be done, because they were shots to the head.”

Mr. Villavicencio, 59, was polling near the middle of an eight-person race. He was among the most vocal candidates on the issue of crime and state corruption.

It was the first assassination of a presidential candidate in Ecuador and came less than a month after the mayor of Manta, a port city, was shot to death during a public appearance. Ecuador, once a relatively safe nation, has been consumed by violence related to narco-trafficking in the last five years.

Outraged and shocked by the assassination,” President Guillermo Lasso wrote on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter,

The national prosecutor’s office said an hour later, on the same platform, that a suspect had been shot and apprehended amid crossfire with security forces, and had died shortly afterward.

Nine other people were shot in the melee, according to the prosecutor’s office, including two police officers and a candidate for a National Assembly seat.

The killing shocked a nation already suffering deep economic, social and political upheaval.

Ecuador, on South America’s western edge, witnessed an extraordinary transformation between 2005 and 2015 as millions of people rose out of poverty, riding the wave of an oil boom whose profits were poured into education, health care and other social programs.

But more recently, the country has been transformed by an increasingly powerful narco-trafficking industry, with foreign drug mafias joining forces with local prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history. Homicide rates are at record levels.

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.

To complicate the situation, Mr. Lasso disbanded the country’s opposition-led National Assembly in May, a drastic move he made as he faced impeachment proceedings over accusations of embezzlement.

The move, which is allowed under the Constitution, meant that new elections for president and legislative representatives would be held. The vote in which Mr. Villavicencio was supposed to compete is set for Aug. 20.

Mr. Villavicencio, who had worked as a journalist, activist and legislator, gained prominence as an opponent of correísmo, the leftist movement of former President Rafael Correa, who served from 2007 to 2017 and still holds political sway in Ecuador.

In 2017 he successfully ran for a seat in the National Assembly, where he served until the legislature was dissolved by Mr. Lasso.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/world/americas/ecuador-presidential-candidate-killed.html

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by jonero4(m): 4:27am On Aug 10, 2023
A Random guy just cash out for a job well done.

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by naijaboy756: 4:29am On Aug 10, 2023
APC How much is dollar today?

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by tishbite42: 4:40am On Aug 10, 2023
Let Peter Obi be careful
These desperate lots can plan this kind of thing against him

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Vifx: 4:50am On Aug 10, 2023
Very sad

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by MySolace: 5:10am On Aug 10, 2023
Sacrificial fowl don die during d incantation...

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by triple996(m): 5:18am On Aug 10, 2023
Nawaooo

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by FairlyUSEDpussy: 5:21am On Aug 10, 2023
Imagine.........

If twas African now..........all this useless foreign media had broadcast it for days to tanish Africa has the worst..........

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Musty112: 5:54am On Aug 10, 2023
Hmm
Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by ecolime(m): 6:01am On Aug 10, 2023
tishbite42:
Let Peter Obi be careful
These desperate lots can plan this kind of thing against him
Election don end na cheesy

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by MrsTwrite(f): 6:10am On Aug 10, 2023
Terrible!
Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by darthv: 6:11am On Aug 10, 2023
spearman:

Obi na OSU.
Nobody gives a hoot about inferior cannibals from the land of the rising scorn.

Says an agbado ugly dirty pig

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Nobody: 6:11am On Aug 10, 2023
Sad. This is extreme

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Lucasinho(m): 6:19am On Aug 10, 2023
spearman:

Obi na OSU.
Nobody gives a hoot about inferior cannibals from the land of the rising scorn.

Mad man

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by ruggedtimi(m): 7:05am On Aug 10, 2023
The suspect dey always die... grin

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Shinjawestern: 7:06am On Aug 10, 2023
Mk I talk werin dey my mind before Ebola boys go attack me ..

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Kingluqman(m): 9:30am On Aug 10, 2023
This one loud oo sad
Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by youngrichnigga: 9:46am On Aug 10, 2023
This is terrible 😭😭😭
Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Ezmans: 10:05am On Aug 10, 2023
naijaboy756:
APC How much is dollar today?
I just bought 100 dollars now #93,000

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by naijaboy756: 10:32am On Aug 10, 2023
Ezmans:
I just bought 100 dollars now #93,000
Tinubu just Dey start

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by NastiLord: 11:35am On Aug 10, 2023
Agbadorians will go this way to ensure that Ebola is not defeated

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Triangles1(m): 11:36am On Aug 10, 2023
When you want to chop cake you will know there's oven, politics is a dirty game so be prepare.........


RIP

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by crackhouse(m): 11:36am On Aug 10, 2023
Why oh why

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by sojayy(m): 11:37am On Aug 10, 2023
Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by wittywriter: 11:37am On Aug 10, 2023
Finally

Ezmans:
I just bought 100 dollars now #93,000
I sold for #91,700 to a mentee that wants to start her NFT flipping haven completed the mentoring process.

Ecuador's currency is worse in value.

Reason I advise any internet literate peeps to start an income means that it's proceeds come in hard foreign currency.
Propertydad2:


I’d love to learn more about this NFT flipping

Well you can seClf-learn or get a paid mentor.


However make sure to get the basics about cryptocurrencies....very important.

grandstar:


How will Ecuador's currency be worse in value?

It is not "will"....google is a free information source...Sucre is worse.

grandstar:


Ecuador does not have its
own currency. It uses the Untied
States dollars. They and Panama are the only 2 mainland South American countries that have adopted the dollar as their currency
Ok....so Ecuador Sucre is invalid? Please let's not digress further. Tnx.



Wittyness

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Toscarel: 11:37am On Aug 10, 2023
I was scared for HE Peter Obi during the campaign but i thank God he got through safe..

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Re: Fernando Villavicencio: Presidential Candidate In Ecuador Assassinated At Rally by Image123(m): 11:37am On Aug 10, 2023
Security is important. Some people will still be asking why popular people use body guards, talking bunkum about street credibility. This is 2023, not 1965.

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