US EditionFormer Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Who Succeeded Assassinated Villavicencio Denounces Persecution
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QUITO (AP) — Former Ecuadorian presidential candidate and journalist Christian Zurita, who assumed the candidacy after Fernando Villavicencio's assassination in 2023, claimed Wednesday that he is the victim of political persecution after a court order for his arrest was made public. The order, issued by Judge Ximena Rodríguez, was part of an investigation into alleged defamation against Zurita, citing his failure to appear at several court heari…
QUITO (AP) — Former Ecuadorian presidential candidate and journalist Christian Zurita, who assumed the candidacy after Fernando Villavicencio's assassination in 2023, claimed Wednesday that he is the victim of political persecution after a court order for his arrest was made public. The order, issued by Judge Ximena Rodríguez, was part of an investigation into alleged defamation against Zurita, citing his failure to appear at several court heari…
Interior Minister John Reimberg, during an interview with Teleamazonas, said that alias ‘Pipo’ was the absolute leader of Los Lobos and responsible for more than 400 deaths in Ecuador.
Nine days after his arrest, the Minister of the Interior, John Reimberg, broke the silence. In a television interview, he said that the fall of alias Pipo represents, according to his words, the “most forceful coup” against Los Lobos in recent years. Reimberg said that Chavarría would have managed to make decisions within the criminal group and that his influence even reached violent acts of high impact. Among them, according to the minister, th…
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