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...That election was upended when anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated while leaving a Quito rally....
...Sebastián Hurtado, head of the Quito political risk consultancy Prófitas, said: “There is no precedent for this political violence in Ecuador’s modern history . . ....
...Anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in August ahead of the first round of voting....
...Fernando Carrión, a security expert with Flacso, says they have become more brutal in their displays of violence since 2017....
...“Rightly or wrongly, people blame Correismo for Villavicencio’s murder,” said Sebastián Hurtado, head of Ecuadorean political risk consultancy Prófitas....
...Mr Hurtado’s concern is well-founded....
...The much-capped Ivan Hurtado is a calm defensive marshal....
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