Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for his anti-corruption message assassinated



Fernando Villavicencio was standing in front of a crowd promising to take down gangs at one of his presidential campaign rallies. Moments later he was shot and killed, just weeks before the presidential election. NBC News’ Guad Venegas has the latest. 

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29 comments

  1. CRIMINAL FBI WING OF DNC JOINS INVESTIGATION. All while assassinating President Trump politically, and the Catholic Church and parents at school board meetings.

  2. Bukele es la solucion……..

  3. All 6 of them got caught? Losers

  4. PROVED HIS POINT CORRUPTION

  5. Don’t catch and release. Just catch and execute. Then there wouldn’t be these issues.

  6. Hope bukenele the president of el salvador don't end up like this politician he is making a lots off enemys

  7. FBI agents will "aid" the investigation, riiiiight…

  8. That's the Democrats Plan B for Trump

  9. The Peri-fascist are at it again

  10. Another one bites the dust.

  11. It’s not the first,or the last.

  12. A brave man who stood up to evil criminals.

    His name will be remembered

  13. Now they've got their own JFK.

  14. This is why we can't have nice things

  15. Coming soon to the U.S. as we import it more and more

  16. Power corrupts. Unfortunately up to the point of murder.

  17. All in the name to keep criminals and criminalization in governments around the world alive! Masses of people need to get together and go find them and do payback, retaliation and revenge

  18. America says too bad it wasn't Trump and the GOP because eventually the American people are going to turn against them! People say their dead people walking anyway and they know it that's why they're going to do everything they can to destroy America before they die

  19. They'll be doing this soon here in America, it's only a matter of time.

  20. Good on him for not being corrupt and staying true to the end proved by this unfortunately, all this has done for the Mafia is raised awareness about there evilness which is sometimes forgotten and support for there opposition and eventual demise.

  21. Interesting how biden seems to be going down this same path

  22. That’s why we need to close the border.

  23. cars side window not shattered YET red on floor of inside building

    Psyop

  24. Latin on latin violence what is the real ness