Fernando Villavicencio assassination facilitated by security failures

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Evoking memories of Pablo Escobar’s assassination of Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan in 1989, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down outside of a campaign event on Wednesday.

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