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Ecuador: Presidential candidate shot dead during campaign event
Arutz Sheva ^ | 10/8/23

Posted on 08/09/2023 10:46:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead during a campaign event in northern Quito on Wednesday night, according to Reuters.

A suspect in the killing of Villavicencio later died from injuries sustained during a shootout, the attorney general's office said on Twitter.

"A suspect, who was injured during the shootout with security personnel, was apprehended and moved, badly injured, to the (attorney general's) unit in Quito. An ambulance from the fire department confirmed his death, the police are proceeding with collection of the cadaver," the attorney general's office said.

Villavicencio's party Movimiento Construye said on armed men attacked its Quito offices.

President Guillermo Lasso confirmed the murder on Twitter and wrote, "For his memory and his fight, I assure you that this crime will not remain unpunished. Organized crime have gone very far, but all the weight of the law will fall on them."

Lasso said he would host top security officials at an urgent meeting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202308; 20230820; 2024election; assassination; assassinationplots; cartels; china; chinaprc; communists; ecuador; ecuadorelection; election; elections; guillermolasso; lasso; loslobos; prc; quito; soccerhooligans; villavicencio
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To: ganeemead

“Sounds like about where we’re headed....”

Yup! If our banana republic democrats can’t jail their political opponents, this is what they will resort to next.


21 posted on 08/10/2023 7:19:52 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: Captain Compassion

Shinzo Abe is unavailable for comment.


22 posted on 08/10/2023 7:20:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Yeah, SCOTUS will vindicate Trump... in 2038.


23 posted on 08/10/2023 7:41:56 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh, and you’re absolutely correct about Debbs. That’s the problem. Trump WILL insist on remaining the nominee, the Republican Party won’t be able to stop him, and he’ll lose in the biggest landslide imaginable because even 50% of Republicans say they wouldn’t vote for Trump if he’s convicted.


24 posted on 08/10/2023 7:43:25 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Nonsense.


25 posted on 08/10/2023 8:06:54 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: dangus

That’s it! It can’t be Trump! Dingus has spoken!


26 posted on 08/10/2023 10:15:27 AM PDT by MagaMatt (Sapere aude.)
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To: dangus

He’s not going to spend five minutes in jail. And SCOTUS can take a case on an emergency basis, as they did in 2000 to stop Florida ballot hanky panky, and as they did in 2021 to refuse to do anything about ballot hanky panky in Pennsylvania.


27 posted on 08/10/2023 12:15:34 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s their inaction in 2021 that worries me. They didn’t rule against Trump; they refused to consider his case.


28 posted on 08/10/2023 12:45:05 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Bwave Sir Woberts was afwaid of the wiots in da stweets, if he used Bush v. Gore as a precedent for choosing the President.

Here you have abuse of law enforcement for political purposes, clear-cut, and they should refuse to consider the merits of the divers criminal cases, once they pass a threshold of implausibility.

And we already know that Bwave Sir Woberts is afwaid of wiots. So stand on the brink of having one in numbers, and eliminate provocateurs with some mechanism, such as a “color of the day” quietly circulating through private channels. So he’ll dismiss the cases as an abuse of power.


29 posted on 08/10/2023 1:59:24 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Six suspects in the murder of Ecuador’s presidential candidate murdered in prison
NOS News Netherlands ^ | 10/7/2023 | NOS News
Posted on 10/6/2023, 11:34:25 PM by Nextrush

Six men suspected of killing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio have been killed in prison. The prison authority in Ecuador reported this in a statement.

Ecuadorian President Lasso writes on...

Drug violence

Villavicencio was shot dead in the capital Quito in August after speaking at a campaign rally, two weeks before the elections. The gunman was killed in a shootout after the attack.

Shortly after Villavicencio’s murder, six Colombians were arrested. They were linked to the Los Lobos drug gang. It is not clear whether these are also the six suspects who have now been killed.

Villavicencio’s death shocked the country, which in recent years has become a hub of cocaine trafficking and struggles with drug violence...

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30 posted on 10/07/2023 12:22:07 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Eleutheria5

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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31 posted on 10/07/2023 12:22:52 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Damn. That’ll give the Dems ideas.


32 posted on 10/07/2023 9:00:57 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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