Fernando Villavicencio, Ecuadorian presidential candidate Murdered last Wednesday, he became the most recognizable face of a wave of murders that has claimed the lives of politicians, prosecutors, judges and prison governors in recent months, without distinction of position or ideology.

Assassination of Villavicencio by hand alleged Colombian hitmendrew international attention to the phenomenon of violence and killings attributed to organized crime and drug trafficking, which has been merciless to authorities at all levels, the latest of which Pedro Briones, local leader associated with the correísmo killed this Monday.

During his election campaign, Villavicencio emphasized fight against organized crimesince he accused that his country was besieged in the main, Mexican cartels.

Two months before this murder, June 8, demanded Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.solve the problem of drug trafficking, as criminal organizations managed to spread their illegal business to Ecuador.

“Our country is the biggest victim of the criminal operations of the largest drug mafias in the world. But these mafias and these cartels are not Ecuadorian. It’s not that they flourished in the beautiful city of Chona or Esmeraldas; mafia from mexico Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, and now the Albanian mafia,” Villavicencio said.

In a social media post, Villavicencio assured that the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are responsible for the criminal operations that take place in Ecuador.

“We won’t let organized crime run these killer schools, so drug criminals from Colombia and Mexico, continue to claim innocent victims in this country,” he said.

The candidate pressured President López Obrador to take drastic measures to counter drug trafficking groups. Here’s a video: