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Six suspects in the murder of Ecuador's presidential candidate murdered in prison
NOS News Netherlands ^ | 10/7/2023 | NOS News

Posted on 10/06/2023 8:34:25 PM PDT 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...

(Excerpt) Read more at nos.nl ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 202308; assassination; assassinationplots; assassins; cartels; china; cocaine; columbians; drugs; drugtrafficking; ecuador; election; electionfraud; elections; loslobos; prc; villavicencio
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Ecuador what a country...Six Epsteins?

1 posted on 10/06/2023 8:34:25 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Epstein...
My first thought.
Sex,drugs and more drugs.


2 posted on 10/06/2023 8:42:01 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Nextrush
Ecuador what a country...Six Epsteins?

Yep.

3 posted on 10/06/2023 9:10:09 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Nextrush

Ecuador is also the first stop of those tens of thousands of military-age Chinese men flooding across our southern border. They’re able to enter Ecuador without a visa, then head north via the Darien Gap.


4 posted on 10/06/2023 9:20:00 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Nextrush

Six unexplained ,unwitnessed “most unfortunate” deaths of prisoners?


5 posted on 10/06/2023 9:32:07 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Nextrush

Well, that’s convenient, all players being eliminated. Sounds more like a meticulous state sponsored assassination than a drug cartel hit.


6 posted on 10/06/2023 11:52:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Nextrush

Anti-China Presidential Candidate Shot Dead in Ecuador
Breitbart ^ | 8/10/23 | Frances Martel
Posted on 8/15/2023, 9:55:16 AM by Roman_War_Criminal

Unknown gunmen killed presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio – running on a strong-on-crime, anti-corruption, anti-China platform – on Wednesday night before a massive crowd outside of a campaign event in Quito, Ecuador.

Villavicencio was one of eight candidates vying for the presidency of Ecuador. The election remains scheduled to take place on August 20, the result of current President Guillermo Lasso, a conservative, using a constitutional provision to dissolve the National Assembly (the federal legislature) in May and call for general elections. Lasso claimed the unprecedented measure was necessary because leftist lawmakers’ incessant attempts to impeach him had made the regular business of government impossible. Lasso is not one of the eight candidates on the ballot.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ..


7 posted on 10/07/2023 12:13:21 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Justice is swift down there. Would prevent a lot more crimes by released street thugs and psychos if we had something like this since Soros MARXIST DAs deliberately let killers go free on no bail or minimum amounts.

Just California, Chicago, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, LA/SF dreaming.


8 posted on 10/07/2023 1:22:30 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Nextrush

The real perpetrators of the murder doing clean up.


9 posted on 10/07/2023 1:50:48 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Nextrush

I was thinking someone like Walter White working with Jack Welker.


10 posted on 10/07/2023 4:17:29 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: lee martell

tpb doing a little clean up


11 posted on 10/07/2023 5:12:03 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: Nextrush

A few years ago, Ecuador was a popular relocation country and seen several times on HGTV’s House Hunting program. Between crime & earthquakes, I wonder what people who were enticed to retire or relocate there are thinking now?


12 posted on 10/07/2023 5:21:56 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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Smells like it to me the guy murdered running for President in Ecuador considered “far-right”.


13 posted on 10/07/2023 5:29:25 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: piasa

“Cleanup, cell 7, please. Cleanup, cell 7.”


14 posted on 10/07/2023 6:22:42 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Nextrush

They imprisoned a presidential candidate, then the candidate was murdered in prison? What a country!

I think this is the fate Democrats want for GOP candidates.


15 posted on 10/07/2023 8:53:36 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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