2023-08-10 21:24:30
“I have nothing to lose,” he repeated. Fernando Villavicencio, the candidate for president of Ecuador who was shot dead as he was leaving an act. But a journalist had warned him of the danger he was running: “If you have something to lose, your life,” he retorted in a note Carlos Vera. After hearing the news of the tragedy, the interviewer relived that moment: “I warned you. God save him,” she wrote.
Villavicencio, 59, died on Wednesday the 9th after being shot at as he was leaving an event in the north of Quito after leading a campaign rally, the agency reported AFP.
The risk he was submitting to with his candidacy had been warned by Vera, a historic investigative journalist who also dabbled in politics. “With what he is doing and provoking. Do you know what is the most important thing you need to carry out this plan? May he be alive, ”she told him.
“You are going to arm yourself with a series of enemies that are not going to let you govern. Wouldn’t it be better to leave a stable ship and make the changes in the second period?” Vera asked him. And Villavicencio replied: “Leaving a ship driven by criminals is not possible. I prefer to have 18 million friends and about 40 thousand ‘hdp’. I will feel proud to have those enemies and a whole country of friends with education, public health.
Villavicencio was one of the eight presidential candidates for the early general elections to be held on August 20. He appeared second in intention of votes.
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