US FBI agents have arrived in Ecuador to help in an investigation into the killing of the presidential candidate, Fernando Vicencio.
He was killed in less than two weeks before the elections were due to take place. His campaign was focused on tackling drug gangs and corruption.
The FBI agents have met with Ecuadorian police and prosecutors after the current president, Guillermo Lasso, requested assistance from them.
Mr. Fernando Vicencio’s running mate, thirty-six years old, Andrea Gonzalez was tapped by his party to replace him. The danger of her new position is very visible in the bullet proof vest she now has to wear.
According BBC’s correspondent, Katie Watson, Mr. Vicencio’s supporters claimed, they had had enough of the violence. They had also said, “the police are hypocrites for failing to protect Fernando Vicencio.”
According to recent reports, six Colombians have been arrested and now in jail. However, in the meantime, the country is in a state of emergency.
Meanwhile, the murdered Ecuadorian presidential candidate’s wife, Veronica Sarauz, has begun showing signs of how her own life looks much in danger, following her husband’s murder. She now wears helmet and bullet proof vest for security.
She had expressed with much bitterness, how she felt the State’s security agency had failed to protect her husband. “They did not protect him as they should have. The state was in charge of Fernando’s security. The state is directly responsible for the murder of my husband. The state still has to give many answers about everything that happened. His personal guards did not do their job,” she lamented.
In the furtherance of the murdered presidential candidate’s dream of dealing with drug gangs and corruption, his running mate, Andrea Gonzalez has agreed to step in his shoes and continue the campaign process. She promised to keep that legacy alive.
According an Ecuadorian security analyst, Fernando Vicencio was well aware of the dangers involved, in the risks he was taking by speaking out against corruption and organized crime.
He explained further that, just a few days before the murder of Fernando Vicencio, he said he had been warned for mentioning names of some popular gangs in his campaigns and told, they would break him.
It was not long, when this unfortunate incident took place.
Katie Watson reported that, one of the gang’s leaders, Jose Adolfo Marcias, also known as, Fito was transferred to another prison, following an earlier incarceration, an operation which involved thousands of police and officers from the military.
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