2023-08-13 16:58:01
Verónica Sarauz, the wife of Fernando Villavicenciothe candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador who was assassinated last Wednesday, this Saturday blamed the State for the death of her husband due to lack of protection and the coreism. According to the family close to the candidate Verónica Sarauz, she was separated from the murdered right-wing candidate for six years.
“The State is directly responsible for the murder of my husband, Fernando Villavicencio,” Sarauz said at a press conference in Quito.
Sarauz assured that the “State has to give many answers about what happened” and denounced a lack of protective measures against the one who was still her husband, who was shot several times as he left a rally at a school in Quito on Wednesday afternoon.
“I don’t want to think that they sold my husband to be murdered in an infamous way,” the Ecuadorian woman conjectured, who did not provide evidence regarding the complaints made against the state and against coreismof which Villavicencio had become his staunch enemy as a result of the complaints he filed against them.
“I want to tell the coreism (…) that they are all responsible if not direct, indirectof the death of my husband” but it is this government “that has to give explanations,” argued Sarauz, who arrived at the press conference wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet and flanked by a member of security who carried a rifle.
Correa denies any connection to the murder
He Former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) He 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.
It is not yet known for sure who is behind the crimebut it is speculated 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 Issueidentified by the authorities as the leader of Los Choneros.
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A seventh man, also a Colombian national, died the same day of the attack as a result, according to the Ecuadorian authorities, of the injuries suffered from the exchange of shots between the attackers and the security personnel who were protecting Villavicencio.
In the attack too Nine other people were injuredof which five are in stable condition at the Women’s Clinic, where Villavicencio also arrived in “fulminant” condition, which prevented health personnel from saving his life, according to a statement from that health center.
Ecuador’s triple crisis
The attack and the instability in which Ecuador lives have aggravated the national crisis and some analysts believe that the country could end up becoming a narco-state, as Carmelo Jordá analyzed in digital freedom.
The murder of Villavicencio has put on the table with all its harshness the deep crisis that the country is going through. As explained by the expert Romanian David Ortiz in an interview in Dieter’s Night of esRadioin the Andean country three different problems overlap:
The political problems derived from the left maneuvers representing the convicted and escaped former president Rafael Correa. The irruption of large scale drug trafficking and both Colombian and, above all, Mexican cartels. The international interferenceboth from the closest countries and from global powers.
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