BREAKING: Fernando Villavicencio, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking out against cartels and corruption, has been shot dead at a campaign rally.
Ecuador is currently reeling from its worst wave of violence in decades, as drug traffickers have seized control of the south american country’s coastal ports.
Former vice president and candidate Otto Sonnenholzner said in a news conference following Wednesday’s killing, ‘We are dying, drowning in a sea of tears and we do not deserve to live like this. We demand that you do something.’Videos of the rally on social media appear to show Villavicencio walking out of the event surrounded by guards. The video then shows the candidate getting into a white pickup truck before gunshots are heard, followed by screams and commotion around the truck.
He was also an independent journalist who investigated corruption in previous governments, later entering politics an an anti-graft campaigner.
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