Seven men suspected of involvement in the murder in August of Ecuador’s anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison on Friday, the prisons agency said, barely a week before a crucial run-off election. Six of the killings took place in a penitentiary in Guayaquil, the South American country’s largest city, the attorney general’s office announced. The prisons agency announced a seventh death at another prison. The SNAI prisons agency said in a statement that six of the seven murdered men were Colombian nationals. The second round run-off vote is scheduled for October 15, the culmination of an election cycle marred by numerous incidents of violence.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald October 08, 2023 07:56 UTC