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Ecuador: People vote in referendum on tougher measures to fight gang-relat
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The majority of the 11 questions asked to voters on Sunday focused on tightening security measures. The steps include deploying the army in the fight against the gangs, loosening hindrances to the extradition of accused criminals and increasing prison sentences for convicted drug traffickers
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Ecuador: Shooting occurs near presidential election candidate Otto Sonnenh
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Otto Sonnenholzner said he was having breakfast with his wife and daughters at a restaurant when the violence erupted.
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Ecuador: Slain candidate Fernando Villavicencio’s running mate to contest
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Andrea Gonzalez Nader, the running mate of Fernando Villavicencio — who was shot dead on Wednesday — will now run for President in the upcoming polls, CNN reported citing the Construye Movement party.
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Six Colombians arrested over Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassinati
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The revelation that the suspects are Colombian is reminiscent of the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, in July 2021, in a plot that ensnared at least 18 Colombians who remain jailed in Haiti awaiting trial. The Colombians are accused of assisting in the operation to kill the
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Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead in Quit
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Fernando Villavicencio, aged 59, was shot several times as he left the rally at a high school in Quito, General Manuel Iniguez, a deputy commander of the Ecuadorean national police said, according to The Washington Post.
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