2023-10-07 19:24:01
The assassinated candidate Fernando Villavicencio KAREN VISIT | Reuters
Seven of the 13 arrested in this case were found hanged in prison
07 oct 2023 . Updated at 7:24 p.m.
Shock in Ecuador due to the murders, in two different prisons, of seven inmates linked to the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, shot on August 9 at the exit of a rally in Quito, days before the celebration of the first round of the elections. elections.
Neither complicity nor cover-up. Here the truth will be known, said the president, Guillermo Lasso, when canceling his stay in the United States and his trip to South Korea to return to the country and lead an emergency security cabinet for those murders.
The crimes occur a week before the second round of the presidential elections and just a few days after the United States offered a five million dollar reward for information on the intellectual authors of the Villavicencio crime, a journalist known for having investigated cases. of corruption of the Administration of former president Rafael Correa (2007 – 2017), and who had recently denounced the infiltration of organized crime in the institutions of Ecuador, a country that is experiencing a brutal violent outbreak due to drug trafficking.
Hanged
The six Colombian hitmen arrested after the murder of Villavicencio were found hanged yesterday in the Literal Penitentiary of Guayaquil, and yesterday the prison authorities reported the death of another of the 13 detainees in relation to the case, in the El Inca prison north of Quito. Some deaths that make analysts suspect that there is systematicity and that the objective is to silence them.
If it is confirmed that they are Villavicencio’s hitmen, it is confirmed that the Government was behind the crime, wrote on the social network possibilities of the current candidate for the presidency, Luisa González, who faces the center-right Daniel Noboa at the polls next Sunday.
Ecuador could reach 40 murders per 100,000 inhabitants this year, becoming one of the most violent countries in the world.
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