{"id":11578,"date":"2023-08-30T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:24:54","slug":"a-shocking-assassination-highlights-escalating-violence-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11578","title":{"rendered":"A shocking assassination highlights escalating violence in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/09\/americas\/ecuador-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio-assassinated-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fernando Villavicencio<\/a>, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ecuador-villavicencio-presidential-candidate-killed-ee9c726b82c09e16e5dacde2d6f005ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who ran heavily on an anti-corruption message<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/09\/world\/americas\/ecuador-presidential-candidate-killed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been assassinated less than two weeks<\/a>&nbsp;before the nation\u2019s presidential elections. Villavicencio, a centrist candidate for the Build Ecuador Movement, was gunned down after a political rally on Wednesday, a shocking act in a country that\u2019s historically been peaceful until recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His killing underscores a recent surge in drug-related violence in Ecuador, and has prompted new scrutiny of the growing presence of cartels in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2023\/8\/10\/23827652\/ecuador-assassination-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/2023\/8\/10\/23827652\/ecuador-assassination-presidential-candidate-fernando-villavicencio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fernando Villavicencio, an Ecuadorian presidential candidate who ran heavily on an anti-corruption message, has been assassinated less than two weeks before the nation\u2019s presidential elections. Villavicencio, a centrist candidate for the Build Ecuador Movement, was gunned down after a political rally on Wednesday, a shocking act in a country that\u2019s historically been peaceful until recent years.<br \/>\nHis killing underscores a recent surge in drug-related violence in Ecuador, and has prompted new scrutiny of the growing presence of cartels in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,1929,1700,847],"class_list":["post-11578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assassination","tag-ecuador","tag-south-america","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}