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Outgoing President Guillermo Lasso has declared three days of mourning and a national state of emergency.

Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead Wednesday at a campaign rally, triggering a state of emergency in the country. The...

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Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been shot and killed during a campaign event in Quito.    The politician was killed on Wednesday.   Officials have suggested that “organised crime” may have been behind the assassination, RT reports.  

Assassination spurs widespread condemnation, calls for justice for slain Ecuadorian anticorruption campaigner.

Murder prompts anger towards former president Rafael Correa, of whom Fernando Villacencio was outspoken critic

Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organised crime, was killed on Wednesday during an evening campaign event in northern Quito.

Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio died after being attacked by hitmen on his way out of a campaign rally in downtown Quito ahead of the upcoming Aug. 20 elections, Interior Minister Juan Zapata confirmed in the Ecuadorian capital. Other people were wounded, it was reported.

On 9 August a gunman assassinated Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in Ecuador’s 20 August general election. Analysis: Villavicen...

Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed Wednesday while leaving a campaign rally. Villavicencio spoke out about corruption and was a leader that alleged there were connections between organized crime and government officials. The criminal gang Los Lobos, or “The Wolves,” claimed responsibility for the shooting, according to BBC.