Who ordered the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio They knew that the only way shut him up it was a clean shot. Journalist in constant fight against corruptionwhip against the excesses of the citizen revolution of Rafael Correa and deputy against the current at the head of the Honesty Alliance, Don Villaas he called himself, never backed down.
He did not do it in front of the almighty Correa, sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption and a fugitive today from Ecuadorian justice, so much so that he became his nemesis. But he did not tremble his voice against the bosses of the drug traffickingwhich have invaded Ecuador and have led the Andean country to the greatest wave of violence known in its more than two centuries of independence.
His investigations cost him exile in the United States and PeruHe even had to hide for 18 months in the Amazon, protected by the indigenous people. Close to President Guillermo Lasso during this legislature, Villavicencio chaired the Parliament commission that studied the impeachment trial against the president, an operation to overthrow him openly criticized by the assassinated leader after a rally in Quito.
Hours before the assassins ended his life, the candidate spoke openly in front of his followers: “They have told me to wear a vest, here I am, sweaty shirt, damn it! You are my bulletproof vest, I need you. You are a brave people and I am brave like you. You are who I am.” Take care. Come, here I am, they said they were going to break me! Here is Don Villa, let the drug dealers come, let the hitmen come, let the vaccinators (extortionists) come. The time for threats is over, here It’s me! They can bend me, but they will never break me“.
Words premonitory de Villavicencio perfectly represent this political personality with an incendiary verb, born 59 years ago very close to the Chimborazo volcano, the closest point on earth to the Sun. In a land of few words, almost always soft, Villavicencio stood out for everything otherwise. Let them tell the directors of the state-owned PetroEcuador, fed up with that union leader who pressed and pressed with his demands and who was capable of packing assemblies with speeches.