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Ecuadorians have found themselves in the middle of a bloody turf war as rival criminal organizations mete out brutal and often public shows of violence, battling to control drug trafficking routes that cross the Andean nation.

Ecuadorians have found themselves in the middle of a bloody turf war as rival criminal organizations mete out brutal and often public shows of violence, battling to control drug trafficking routes that cross the Andean nation.

Ecuadors President Guillermo Lasso Thursday asked the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to support his country in the investigation of Wednesdays murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, it was reported in Quito. An FBI team is due in Ecuador shortly, Lasso said.

Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio gathered was gunned down as he left a campaign event

Friends and family came together Friday to pay their respects to Fernando Villavicencio, the Ecuadorian presidential candidate who was assassinated Wednesday in Quito.

Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been killed during a campaign event in northern Quito and a suspect...

President Lasso said he is 'outraged and shocked' and vowed the crime would not go unpunished

Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed on Wednesday evening during a campaign event in northern Quito and a suspect in the crime later died of injuries sustained in a shoot-out, authorities said

Villavicencio, a former lawmaker, shot and killed in Quito, local media reports

Local media had earlier reported Villavicencio, a former lawmaker had been shot at a campaign event in Quito.