Ecuador charges ex-minister in presidential candidate assassination case

Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated at a campaign event in 2023; five people were previously convicted for orchestrating the hit, with six others murdered in prison while awaiting trial.

In the long aftermath of Fernando Villavicencio's assassination at a Quito campaign rally in 2023, Ecuador's prosecutors have charged seven people — including a former interior minister and a cartel leader — with indirect roles in the killing of a man who spent his career naming the dangerous alliances between government and organized crime. The case moves slowly upward through layers of culpability, seeking to prove that the murder of a presidential candidate was not an isolated act of violence but a coordinated effort to silence a voice that threatened powerful interests. Justice, where it h

Ecuador charges ex-minister in presidential candidate assassination case

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