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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] 3 points 11 months ago (2 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] 1 points 11 months ago

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

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