Former Assembly member and now presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, greets supporters outside the Attorney General's Office in Quito on Aug. 8, 2023. RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images
Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed in what President Guillermo Lasso called an assassination by unidentified individuals at a political rally in the country’s capital of Quito on Aug. 9.
His death comes less than two weeks before Ecuador’s elections, scheduled for Aug. 20.
