After the crime in Villavicencio, a candidate for legislator was miraculously saved in another attack

2023-08-11 05:39:00

Just one day after the shocking murder of the journalist and candidate for the presidency of Ecuador Fernando Villavicencio, This Thursday the candidate for the National Assembly for the Claro que se puede alliance (lists 2-17-20), Estefany Puente Castromiraculously saved her life when she was shot by two motorcycle subjects who are intensely wanted.

It was shortly after noon in the town of Quevedo, Los Ríos province, where Puente Castro was on a campaign tour near the Lions Club when a motorcycle stopped in front of his vehicle, and a subject shot three times at the windshield in the driver’s side, shots that only wounded the candidate who miraculously saved her life in the arm.

Ecuador is still in a state of shock over crime shot this Wednesday, August 9, at the exit of a campaign event de Villavicencio, a candidate who presented himself as the champion of the fight against corruption and who was a member of the opposition coalition ‘Construye’ (List 25). The shocking videos of the attack on Villavicencio circulated through the networks, and this Friday the Ecuadorian government said that there are 6 detainees for that murder, all of them Colombian nationals:

“Operations are useless to catch criminals if they will leave the next day with the complicity of corrupt prosecutors and judges,” Villavicencio stated in his spots, crowned with the motto “It’s time for the brave.

“Justice will no longer be the revolving door for criminals”, promised the presidential candidate at the end of the spot. The truth is that a few hours after the assassination of Villavicencio, the one who was left under the bullets of the siacrios was the candidate for the National Assembly Estefany Lucas in Queved. He was traveling with his father and a collaborator who were also unharmed in the attack.

There, according to a police report, a subject approached the candidate, intimidating her and hitting her windshield with an object similar to a firearm, telling her to stop the vehicle.

Puente Castro published a message this Thursday on his social networks, stating “today I have been a victim of crime against my integrity, what we Quevedeñ@s, Riosenses and Ecuadorians experience daily, where we have been forgotten by an inoperative government , wrapped in corruption, mafias, the result of previous governments (of the fugitives) and the current one, of those who negotiate with criminal groups and are protected by such”.

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“My commitment to society, my province and my country is to continue fighting together with my political party UnidadPopular Ecuador together with Yaku Pérez, whom we will lead to the presidency of the Republic, we will work for better days to recover security, La Paz, education, values, sports, health, cleaning public institutions of the corruption in which we find ourselves involved, imprisoning the corrupt white collar”.

Thanks to the hundreds of messages and calls, I want to publicly thank that I have received and that we continue in the fight,” he said.

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