{"id":52664,"date":"2023-08-10T04:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52664"},"modified":"2023-08-11T23:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T21:41:31","slug":"fernando-villavicencio-center-right-candidate-for-the-presidency-of-ecuador-was-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/10\/fernando-villavicencio-center-right-candidate-for-the-presidency-of-ecuador-was-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Villavicencio, center-right candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, was assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador's presidential election campaign has been stained with blood with the assassination of one of the centre-right candidates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/04\/the-communist-gustavo-petro-drug-trafficking-and-the-applause-from-which-only-vox-distanced-itself\/\">The communist Gustavo Petro, drug trafficking and the applause from which only Vox distanced itself<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/07\/peru-communism-fails-in-its-attempt-to-impose-another-dictatorship-in-hispanic-america\/\">Peru: communism fails in its attempt to impose another dictatorship in Hispanic America<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Shot to death after getting into a police vehicle<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The journalist <strong>Fernando Villavicencio Valencia<\/strong>, candidate of the Construye Movement and one of the center-right politicians who stood in these elections, <strong>was shot dead in Quito as he left a political act <\/strong>, just as she had just gotten into a police vehicle. The murder took place on Avenida Gaspar de Villaroel, according to the newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eltelegrafo.com.ec\/noticias\/actualidad\/44\/fernando-villavicencio-sufrio-ataque-armado\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El Tel\u00e9grafo<\/a>. Here you can see <strong>the images of the crime broadcast by Channel 26, which indicates that Villavicencio was shot three times in the head:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v33id7w\/?pub=ck0k2\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the witnesses to the assassination, <strong>Carlos Figueroa<\/strong>, campaign adviser and friend of Fernando Villavicencio, <a href=\"https:\/\/redmas.com.co\/mundo\/La-narcopolitica-asesino-a-Fernando-Villavicencio-habla-amigo-que-presencio-el-atentado-en-Ecuador-20230809-0050.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has denounced that the crime was committed by drug traffickers linked to the local politics<\/a>. He also pointed out that an explosive device was found in the place that would have been deactivated by the police.<\/p>\n<p><big>He was the second candidate with the most support in these elections<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Wednesday, a few hours before he was murdered, Villavicencio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VillaFernando_\/status\/1689231605565382656\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published a survey that pointed to him as the second candidate with the most support<\/a>, 13.5%, behind the candidate Luisa Gonz\u00e1lez Alc\u00edvar, from the far-leftist Movimiento Revoluci\u00f3n Ciudadana (Citizen Revolution Movement), led by the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.<\/p>\n<p><big>He had denounced the links of the far-left with the FARC and the drug traffickers<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Villavicencio was a man who had a police escort after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecuadorenvivo.com\/index.php\/politica\/item\/155715-villavicencio-ventila-los-vinculos-del-narcotrafico-con-el-correismo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his denunciations linking Correa's Citizen Revolution Movement to drug trafficking<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/redmas.com.co\/mundo\/Fernando-Villavicencio-habia-denunciado-vinculos-de-Rafael-Correa-con-las-Farc-y-Piedad-Cordoba-20230809-0051.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the FARC terrorists<\/a>. Last March, in a public statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VillaFernando_\/status\/1632120180938555392\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Villavicencio denounced that Ecuador was already a narco-state<\/a> and announced: <em>\"Everything is rotten, <strong>we are going with the good people to defeat organized crime<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahora.com.ec\/pais\/fernando-villavicencio-eleccion-presidente-mafias-unidad\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaHora.com.ec<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador&#8217;s presidential election campaign has been stained with blood with the assassination of one of the centre-right candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11471],"tags":[9718,19893,19895,19894,19896,5454],"class_list":["post-52664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hispanicity","tag-ecuador","tag-fernando-villavicencio-valencia","tag-luisa-gonzalez-alcivar","tag-movimiento-construye","tag-movimiento-revolucion-ciudadana","tag-rafael-correa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}