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Ecuador politician murder: Prison gangs in terror reign

2023-08-10 21:29
A presidential candidate has been killed in the latest assassination in Ecuador as gang crime soars.
Ecuador politician murder: Prison gangs in terror reign

"Here, we pay for democracy with our lives."

The words Fernando Villavicencio shouted into a microphone at a campaign rally just moments before he died in a hail of bullets may have been dismissed as an exaggeration, a rhetorical flourish just five years ago.

But on Wednesday, they proved...