Abe took a hard line on China, too.
Six suspects in the murder of Ecuador’s presidential candidate murdered in prison
NOS News Netherlands ^ | 10/7/2023 | NOS News
Posted on 10/6/2023, 11:34:25 PM by Nextrush
Six men suspected of killing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio have been killed in prison. The prison authority in Ecuador reported this in a statement.
Ecuadorian President Lasso writes on...
Drug violence
Villavicencio was shot dead in the capital Quito in August after speaking at a campaign rally, two weeks before the elections. The gunman was killed in a shootout after the attack.
Shortly after Villavicencio’s murder, six Colombians were arrested. They were linked to the Los Lobos drug gang. It is not clear whether these are also the six suspects who have now been killed.
Villavicencio’s death shocked the country, which in recent years has become a hub of cocaine trafficking and struggles with drug violence...
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