Source: Getty ImagesHowever, one of the presidential candidates Fernando Villavicencio has been shot dead as he left a campaign event in Quito. How Fernando Villavicencio was shotA video on social media showed the moment Villavicencio was about to get into a car when a man stepped forward and shot him in the head three times. How Villavicencio unmasked rot in EcuadorHis revelations unmasked a web of espionage that extended even to Julian Assange during his embassy asylum. He had stated that the country had been turned into a 'narco-state', promising to lead the war against the political mafia. Villavicencio's death on Wednesday, August 9, comes ahead of a highly contested presidential election in the Andean nation.

Source: Daily Nation August 10, 2023 09:06 UTC