QUITO, Ecuador An Ecuadorian presidential candidate who recently pledged to root out corruption and lock up the country s "thieves" was fatally shot at a political rally in the capital as the South American country reels from drug-related crime and violence.
The Ecuadorean presidential candidate who was fatally shot at a political rally was unafraid to take on criminal networks and a political elite he accused of corruption.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) An Ecuadorian presidential candidate who recently pledged to root out corruption and lock up the country s "thieves" was fatally shot at a political rally in the capital as the South American country reels from drug-related crime and violence.
The six men arrested as suspects in the assassination of an anti-corruption Ecuadorian presidential candidate are Colombian nationals, a police report said Thursday as authorities investigated the motive for a crime that shocked a nation already reeling from a surge in drug-related violence.
The gang-driven violence afflicting Ecuador over the last two years reached an unprecedented level when a presidential candidate known for speaking up against drug cartels and corruption was shot and killed at a political rally in the South American country's capital. The assassination of Fernando Villavicencio in Quito happened Wednesday, less than two weeks before…