Ecuador politician Pedro Briones killed by unknown gunmen, days after the assassination of one of the presidential favourites, the centrist Fernando Villavicencio
Pedro Briones was a member of the Citizen Revolution Party of Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa.
A local politician in Ecuador was killed, party officials said, less than a week after a presidential front runner was gunned down at a campaign rally ahead of this weekend's elections. Pedro Briones, a member of the Citizen Revolution Party of former president Rafael Correa, and one of the movement's leaders in the province of Esmeraldas on the border with Colombia, was killed on Monday by unknown gunmen.
"My solidarity with the family of comrade Pedro Briones, new victim of violence," Luisa Gonzalez, one of the main presidential candidates,"Ecuador is going through its bloodiest period," said Gonzalez, a close former associate of Correa. She called the government inept and said the country has been taken over by organized crime gangs.on social media,"They murdered another of our colleagues in Esmeraldas.
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