Ecuador declares state of emergency after Villavicencio’s ‘assassination’

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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has declared a countrywide state of emergency for 60 days in response to the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a campaign rally in the capital, Quito.

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Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador, declared that the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio was a political crime amounting to terrorism and that he had no doubt that the assassination was an attempt to sabotage the electoral process.

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2023

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Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio

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Guillermo Lasso, President of Ecuador, declared that the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio was a political crime amounting to terrorism and that he had no doubt that the assassination was an attempt to sabotage the electoral process.

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