2023-08-13 07:46:30
A week before the presidential elections, the political movement Construye, from Ecuador, which is in mourning after the assassination in broad daylight of its candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, last Wednesday, announced on Saturday that Andrea González Nader will be its new candidate presidential in the elections on the 20th.
Until now Andrea González Náder held the candidacy for vice president in the binomial headed by Villavicencio, for which Construye indicated in a statement that in the next few hours she will announce the person who will replace her as her companion in this formula. González, 36, is an environmental activist who has not previously held public office, but was chosen by Villavicencio to succeed him.
Until now Andrea González Náder held the candidacy for vice president
If the National Electoral Council (CNE) accepts this change, González Náder would participate tomorrow, Sunday, in the debate that the presidential candidates will hold. If González Nader is materialized in the CNE as a candidate for the Presidency by Construye, there will be two women who will run for the head of state out of a total of eight candidates in contention.
The other woman in contention is former assembly member Luisa González, candidate of the Citizen Revolution (RC), the movement led by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
Precisely the supporters of the leftist Rafael Correa were accused by Villavicencio’s widow, Verónica Sarauz, of being directly or indirectly responsible for the murder of her husband, which she described as a “state crime.” “But it was in this government that my husband died and he is the one who has to explain,” added the woman, who had been separated from her husband for six years, according to her family.
Villavicencio’s wife accuses the Ecuadorian State and Correísmo of the murder
Former President Correa has emphatically denied on several occasions having anything to do with the murder, for which six Colombians have been arrested so far, accused of being the alleged hit men who carried out the crime. They will be held for at least a month while the investigation that will help incriminate them continues.
And there is still no clarity about who is behind the crime, but there is speculation that it could be one of the criminal gangs operating in the country and that the candidate himself denounced direct threats days before his death, and specifically referred to “Fito “, identified by the authorities as the leader of “Los Choneros”, one of the most dangerous criminal gangs in the country.
Transfer with maximum security of “Fito”, a gangster who threatened Villavicencio
Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias “Fito”, is transferred to a maximum security prison in Guayaquil
via Reuters
In this sense, and in an effort to show firmness, the government of the current president, Guillermo Lasso, deployed 4,000 soldiers and police on Saturday to transfer the so-called “Fito”, named José Adolfo Macías Villamar, to a maximum security prison , where about 150 inmates are incarcerated. . “This morning, pursuant to Decree 823, the transfer of alias ‘Fito’ to the La Roca prison for the safety of citizens and detainees has been carried out. Ecuador is going to recover peace and security,” he wrote. Lasso on his X network account, formerly Twitter. According to the authorities, “Fito” and his men controlled at least one building in the prison where he was previously detained.
Villavicencio had assured last week that the leader of the gang, sentenced to 34 years in prison for murder and drug trafficking, had threatened to kill him. Former journalist and congressman, the politician had investigated drug trafficking for years and denounced corruption in his country.
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