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Six Colombians arrested over Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassination (thehill.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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