A group of individuals dressed in black and with their faces covered identified themselves as “Los Lobos”, a historic Ecuadorian criminal gang, and threatened another candidate.
A group of hooded, who claims to belong to the criminal gang Los Lobos, one of the largest criminal groups in Ecuador, was responsible this Thursday for the murder of the opposition candidate Fernando Villavicencioin a video posted on the social network X
In the video, one of the individuals dressed in black confirmed the authorship of the murder: “Every time corrupt politicians don’t keep their promise that we establish when they receive our money, which is millions of dollars that finance their campaign, they will be discharged“.
“Us, Los Lobos organization, we assume responsibility for the events that occurred. And it will happen again when the corrupt don’t keep their word,” he added.
The hooded men also issued a threat to the candidate Jan Topic, an Ecuadorian-French economist, politician and businessman related to the security sector: “You too, Jan Topic, keep your word. If you don’t keep your promise, Jan Topic, you’ll be nextJan Topic”.
According to Insight Crime, a foundation dedicated to the study and investigation of threats to national and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean, Los Lobos is a criminal gang that has played a central role in the worsening of the security situation in recent years. in the Andean country, something that was reflected in a significant increase in the homicide rate in Ecuador in 2021.
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Ecuador: who was Fernando Villavicencio?
With a long history denouncing cases of corruption, both in his role as a journalist and as a legislator, Fernando Villavicencio Valencia was candidate for president in Ecuador for the Construye Movementfrom the list 25 under the motto “It’s time for the brave“, when it was assassinated by hitmen. I was 59 years old.
He political was born in a small jurisdiction of the Andean province of Chimborazowhich has a little more than 6 thousand inhabitants, until at the age of 13 his family decided to move to quit. It was him eldest of six siblings. He was a ex-unionist of the state oil company Petroecuador and then journalist, During his career, he mainly denounced alleged million-dollar losses in oil contracts.
He last Tuesday there was presented a complaint to the attorney general’s office about an oil deal, but no further details of his report were made public.
Source: Ambito
