adds he was gettining into a a truck [ gunshots ] you can hear the gunfire. he was shot in the head and killed, just two weeks before the election. the lawmaker and former journalist was running on a pledge to root out corruption and organized crime, now terrorizing the streets. the president says assassins tossed a grenade as they escaped. at least six people are under arrest. drug violence is skyrocketing in ecuador, with gangs fighting over routes and turf. villavicencio promised to clean house. these are some of his last words at his final campaign event. what we need to do is to lock up the thieves, he said. villavicencio had said he had been repeatedly threatened by drug cartels. tonight ecuador s president has declared a state of emergency. lester? richard engel tonight, thank you. and coming up on our exclusive reporting, how china is allegedly threatening people beyond its borders in
laura: nearly 200 miles from the us-mexico border one of la county s major problems is drug cartels. it is being described as the wild west with residents fearing for their lives. one couple telling my next guest the cartels have pictures of us, we they know where we live, showed us a truck with 3 bullet holes in it and the guys are still in it and he says this is what is going to happen to you if you come back out again. we are always followed and they are always watching us. they watch us all the time. joining me now is townhall.com s senior writer, coolio, this is so disturbing i almost feel like americans are getting numb to this reality that our border is completely open and people are just coming across, criminals, non-criminals, families, individuals, but this idea of
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