The prosecutor investigating a drug cartel’s takeover of an Ecuadorian TV station was assassinated in his car as the country’s bloody drug war continued to escalate.
Vicente Gaibor del Pino/ReutersThe prosecutor investigating a gang attack on a TV studio in Ecuador which broadcast the harrowing incident on air has been killed, according to local media reports. César Suárez was shot to death in a daylight attack while driving near his office in the city of Guayaquil, the country’s attorney general, Diana Salazar, said in a transcribed statement reported The Guardian. “The criminals, the terrorists, will not hold back our commitment to Ecuadorian society,” Sal
Ecuador prosecutor César Suárez, who was leading the investigation into the armed assault on TC Television's studio, was shot and killed near his office.