{"id":1997199,"date":"2023-08-10T20:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-to-help-ecuador-investigate-right-wing-presidential-candidates-assassination-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T00:34:04","slug":"fbi-to-help-ecuador-investigate-right-wing-presidential-candidates-assassination-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-to-help-ecuador-investigate-right-wing-presidential-candidates-assassination-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI to aid Ecuador in probing assassination of right-wing candidate: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-to-help-ecuador-investigate-right-wing-presidential-candidates-assassination-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997199&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration \u200bSends FBI Agents\u200d to\u2062 Ecuador to Investigate Assassination of Presidential\u200b Candidate<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has reportedly\u200c made plans to send\u2064 FBI agents to Ecuador to\u2062 investigate \u200dthe assassination of right-wing presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Villavicencio\u200d was shot multiple \u200btimes on Wednesday \u200cafter \u200dleaving a political\u200c rally.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso \u2064requested aid from the \u200cU.S. Federal\u2064 Bureau of\u2064 Investigation, and his request was\u200b accepted.\u2064 In \u2064a tweet,\u2064 Lasso wrote, &#8220;The U.S. Federal Investigation\u200b and Intelligence\u2064 Agency accepted\u200b our request and in the next few hours a delegation will arrive in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Lasso declared a national state of \u2062emergency for 60 days, three days of\u200c national mourning, and deployed armed forces across the country. He stated, &#8220;Organized crime \u2063has come\u200d a long way, but the full weight of the \u200dlaw will fall on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While FBI officials have \u200bnot confirmed the\u200c report,\u2062 it is common for\u2064 the bureau \u2062to launch investigations in allied nations, as reported by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<h3>Presidential Candidate Villavicencio&#8217;s Campaign and Legacy<\/h3>\n<p>Fernando Villavicencio, a \u200bjournalist who covered government corruption before entering politics, campaigned on building safety in Ecuador through five pillars: citizens, food, economics, environment, and health. Tragically, he was assassinated just ten days before the scheduled presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Villavicencio was married and leaves behind five children,\u200d according\u2063 to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Nichols, the assistant U.S. Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, condemned the\u2063 assassination, calling \u200bit a &#8220;brazen attack on democracy and the rule of law.&#8221; He urged \u2063a swift and \u2063thorough investigation and offered U.S. support.<\/p>\n<h3>International Response and Arrests<\/h3>\n<p>John Kirby, \u200cthe National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, expressed \u2062his concern for Ecuadorean democracy, stating that the assassination was\u2063 not what anyone\u2062 would want.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of \u200dState Antony Blinken also \u200ccondemned the \u2064assassination and offered condolences to Villavicencio&#8217;s family and the \u2064people of Ecuador. He pledged support to local authorities in bringing the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN,\u2063 at least nine other people were \u2064injured in the incident, including a candidate for the National Assembly and two police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bEcuadorian Attorney General&#8217;s Office announced the arrest of seven suspects, including the alleged killer, who later died \u200bfrom wounds sustained during a shootout with a security detail. Interior Minister Juan \u200dZapata revealed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-to-help-ecuador-investigate-right-wing-presidential-candidates-assassination-report\/\" title=\"FBI to aid Ecuador in probing assassination of right-wing candidate: Report\">suspects included foreign \u200dnationals<\/a> \u2064and members\u2062 of organized \u2062criminal groups. Authorities seized various weapons\u200c and ammunition, as well as motorcycles and \u200ba stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<h3>Villavicencio&#8217;s Fight Against Cartels and Government Corruption<\/h3>\n<p>Villavicencio was known for \u2063his outspoken \u200dopposition \u200bto cartels\u200d operating in Ecuador. These criminal organizations have recently increased their presence in the country&#8217;s \u2064coastal\u200d ports, leading to a resurgence of violence. The Sinaloa cartel\u200b affiliates from Mexico had reportedly threatened Villavicencio due to his activism against them.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, \u2064Villavicencio was sentenced \u200bto 18\u2064 months in \u2064prison for allegedly slandering former left-wing\u200d President Rafael Correa. He spent three years as a fugitive before being granted \u2063political asylum in Peru. After returning to Ecuador, he accused the government of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-state-senator-fined-over-improper-use-of-public-resources-at-dobbs-response-event\/\" title=\"Washington state senator fined for misusing public resources at Dobbs response event.\">misusing public resources<\/a> in the commercialization of crude \u2064oil with private company PetroChina, resulting\u200d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-a-nascar-pit-crew-authorities-bust-car-theft-ring-that-stole-catalytic-converters-in-less-than-a-minute\/\" title=\"\u2018Like A NASCAR Pit Crew\u2019: Authorities Bust Car Theft Ring That Stole Catalytic Converters In Less Than A Minute\">significant financial losses<\/a> for the \u200bcountry.<\/p>\n<p>In his final speech \u200cbefore\u2062 his assassination, Villavicencio vowed to continue fighting against corruption and\u200d named Jos\u00e9 Adolfo Mac\u00eda, the \u2062detained leader of the Ecuadorian gang Los Choneros, as one of \u200bhis targets. He fearlessly declared, &#8220;Here I am showing my face. I&#8217;m not \u200bscared of\u2062 them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE \u2063DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration intends to deploy FBI agents to Ecuador for probing the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, a right-wing presidential candidate. Villavicencio was shot multiple times after a political rally. Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso sought assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, as stated in his post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1997200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}