Posted on 08/10/2023 5:31:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ecuadorian right-wing Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated at a campaign rally on Wednesday.
Fernando Villavicencio was reportedly shot in the head three times.
A grenade was also found at the scene.
WATCH:
Quedó grabado el Momento exacto en que matan a Fernando Villavicencio!! pic.twitter.com/7kpqUzwzQ4
— Emergencias Ec (@EmergenciasEc) August 10, 2023
According to local media reports, supporters of Fernando Villavicencio managed to capture a suspect after the assassination.
WATCH:
Simpatizantes de Fernando Villavicencio lograron capturar a un sospechoso del crimen al candidato. pic.twitter.com/juqh67WlYk
— Ronald Vinces (@RonaldVinces5) August 10, 2023
Additional footage of the immediate aftermath and chaos was posted to Twitter.
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#URGENTE SICARIOS DISPARAN A FERNANDO VILLAVICENCIO A LA SALIDA DE UN MITIN COLEGIO ANDERSON EN QUITO pic.twitter.com/saiTeqKb7R
— christian zurita :. (@christianzr) August 9, 2023
Police exchanged gunfire with the hitman.
WATCH:
Momento del cruce de balas donde los sicarios finalmente acabaron con la vida del candidato a la presidencia, Fernando Villavicencio.
¡Ecuador se ha convertido en un campo de guerra!.#FernandoVillavicencio #sicariato #Ecuador pic.twitter.com/7h2IPgdfzH
— Ronald Vinces (@RonaldVinces5) August 10, 2023
First responders rushed Fernando Villavicencio into the emergency room but he didn’t survive.
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BREAKING VIDEO: Medical staff and first responders rushing Ecuador Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio into the emergency room
He did not survive pic.twitter.com/U4NdUuWTVO
— Eric Spracklen🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) August 10, 2023
El Pais reported:
The candidate for the presidency of Ecuador Fernando Villavicencio was shot to death this Wednesday afternoon after participating in a campaign event in Quito. The attack occurred in a school in the capital from which the applicant came. Villavicencio, whom most polls placed in fourth or fifth position among the opponents who will dispute the succession of Guillermo Lasso on August 20, presented himself as a battering ram against corruption under the slogan It’s time for the brave.
The 59-year-old politician was a member of the Assembly until its dissolution and chaired the audit commission. He was criticized for his actions in the impeachment process against Lasso, because that commission issued a report favorable to the president that did not have the support of other legislators. The attack occurs when there are 11 days to go before the elections in a country asphyxiated by an unprecedented crisis. During the campaign, the mayor of Manta, a key port for drug trafficking, and a candidate for the Assembly have been assassinated.
This is a breaking story…please check back for updates.
WEF strikes again
They’ve made a martyr
Look for CIA footprints!
“reportedly shot in the head three times”
Horrible
What a surprise......
The communists are murdering our leaders, they murder us individually like the man in Utah murdered by the fbi, they imprison us for protesting, they call us evil while being evil themselves and so much more.
I used to call it CWII but this is what WWIII looks like.
The Elites can assure that South America is compromised. It’s easy to cheat there or they can just eliminate any threats. It’s why they installed a demented mannequin in the White House.
These acts - plus what they’re trying to do to Niger... the WEF and our CIA
P
The Right just tries to go along to get along.
Almost every assassination or assassination attempt involves a leftist going after a conservative. Look it up and see.
Does the CIA have an alibi?
They don’ need no steenking alibi!...................
Fernando Villavicencio promised to crack down on Ecuador’s ‘narco state.’ It made him powerful enemies
By Jack Guy, CNN
Updated 9:05 AM EDT, Thu August 10, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/10/americas/fernando-villavicencio-ecuador-profile-intl/index.html
FBI?
We have officially gone from “cheat/fraud” in elections to “assassination.”
No doubt in my mind Biden ordered this.
They caught the perp.
We’ll see if he commits ‘suicide’..................
No ...China.
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.
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