Ecuador’s Ministry of the Interior announced the arrest of six people for the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito Thursday.

  • Silverseren
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    171 year ago

    So, were they just hired guns and there’s some other mastermind behind this or is there some other reason why Colombian criminals would care about a politician in Ecuador, regardless of what their political stances were?

    • WookieMunster
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      61 year ago

      Weird how it was also Colombians who assassinated the Haiti president. Villavicencio denounced government involved with organized crime according the the article

      • Silverseren
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        31 year ago

        It could mean that this is just a general hit squad criminal group that one hires for this sort of thing. Or there may be a larger criminal network across multiple countries involved in this.

    • SlowNPC
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      41 year ago

      My guess is they’re cartel, and their boss didn’t like the idea of someone shutting down their trade routes.

    • @library_napper
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      31 year ago

      This guy was pushing legislation to stop oil drilling. These guns were probably hired by oil companies or their investors.