The mayor of an Ecuadoran city said Saturday he was the victim of an attempted assassination, a day before the
Francisco Tamariz, the mayor of the coastal town of La Libertad, said he escaped unharmed from the Friday evening attack, in which gunmen fired 30 shots at his vehicle.
“In just seconds, they started to riddle the vehicle with bullets… without ever asking who was in it,” he said in the Facebook post, appearing in a bulletproof vest alongside his wife, who was in the van with him at the time. The murder rate has soared above those of Mexico and Colombia, and the assassinations of several politicians in the run-up to the vote underscored the challenges facing Ecuador’s leaders.
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