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...Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso, who declared a state of emergency and a three-day period of national mourning, said he had requested assistance from US investigators and that they would arrive shortly...
...Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso declared a two-month state of emergency and three days of national mourning in a video posted online after a late-night meeting of his security cabinet....
...That election was upended when anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated while leaving a Quito rally....
...The nation was traumatised in August when centre-right presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by gunmen ahead of November’s snap election....
...President Guillermo Lasso, who is not seeking re-election, cancelled a planned visit to South Korea in response to the prison murders, and on Saturday met with his security cabinet to address the violence...
...Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso confirmed Villavicencio’s death on social media and announced an emergency cabinet security meeting to address the violence destabilising the country....
...Noboa’s administration will last only 17 months because he will complete the term of previous conservative president Guillermo Lasso, who called a snap election amid an impeachment process against him....
...Moreno’s successor Guillermo Lasso, a self-made banking tycoon, was equally unable to halt the growing stranglehold of gangs when he took office in 2021....
...The snap election was triggered by outgoing president Guillermo Lasso, who in May dissolved congress using a constitutional clause known as “mutual death”....
...The snap election was triggered when President Guillermo Lasso dissolved congress in May using a “mutual death” constitutional clause....
...Sunday’s snap election was triggered by President Guillermo Lasso in May when he dissolved congress to avoid impeachment charges from opposition lawmakers....
...The government of outgoing president Guillermo Lasso pledged to pursue the “intellectual authors” of the assassination....
...The hastily arranged election was triggered in May when President Guillermo Lasso dissolved congress using a constitutional clause known as “mutual death”....
...Anti-corruption candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in August ahead of the first round of voting....
...Sunday Ecuador: voters go to the polls to elect a new parliament and president following a snap election called by the country’s current leader Guillermo Lasso after he faced impeachment charges Guatemala...
...Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in Ecuador, was last night shot dead by gunmen during a campaign event in the country’s capital, Quito....
...“Ecuador is practically submerged in organised crime,” Villavicencio, a centrist former journalist and legislator, told the FT....
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