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A wave of violence in the run-up to Sunday’s ballot led candidates to end their campaigns screened by police escorts following the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio

With voting due to be held over the weekend, security is tight following the assassination of anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio

Ecuador will hold general elections on Sunday to elect a new president amid an escalation in drug cartel-related violence.

Quito, Aug 16 (EFE).- Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) cleared the way Wednesday for Christian Zurita to take the place of the assassinated Fernando Villavicencio as the presidential candidate of the centrist Construye (Build) party in the Aug. 20 elections. The leftist Citizens Revolution party had challenged Zurita’s candidacy, pointing to a record of his …

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QUITO (Reuters) - Candidates vying to be Ecuador's next president held closing campaign events on Thursday, ahead of voting over the weekend in a contest clouded by the murder of anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

Ahead of vote on Sunday, presidential hopefuls are promising improved security in country struggling with surging crime.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urges solutions to the political violence unfolding before the elections.

Quito, Ecuador CNN  —  Gissella Cecibel Molina doesn’t know if she will lose her right eye, which was injured last week when her colleague and friend, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated in front of her as they left a political rally in Ecuador’s capital, Quito.

Gissella Cecibel Molina doesn’t know if she will lose her right eye, which was injured last week when her colleague and friend, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, was assassinated in front of her as they left a political rally in Ecuador’s capital, Quito.