Villavicencio family reacts to AMLO’s comments
AMLO’s statements not only caused tensions with the authorities of the Latin American country, but also The then-candidate’s family reacted with outrage to what the President of Mexico said.
Amanda Villavicencio, daughter of Fernando Villavicencioreacted via
And he even sent a stern message to Lopez Obrador: “Wash your mouth, Lopez Obrador, before you talk about my father.”.
In the same message, published on April 4, Amanda indicated to AMLO that some of those responsible for her father’s death were “sanctuary in your embassies and in your country”in a relationship Jorge Glasswho at that time was at the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
For her part, Villavicencio’s widow, Veronica Sarauzdemanded respect for her husband’s memory.
“The statement by the President of Mexico regarding the murder of my husband Fernando Villavicencio is regrettable. The progressive forces he champions are linked to organized crime and drug trafficking.are officially suspected of participating as the intellectual authors of a terrible crime that has had a profound impact on the country’s democracy.”
Before his death, Villavicencio demanded that AMLO fight drug trafficking.
On the same social network, while Ecuadorian police were raiding the headquarters of the Mexican diplomatic mission in Peru, Villavicencio’s daughter recalled on social networks the times when her father said that Ecuador was basically under siege from the Mexican cartels:
“There is no drug trafficker without political power, and now the corrupt are hiding behind these disgraceful governments. The word of our father always inspires us, shelters us in these moments of indignation and pain. Thank you, daddy, for leaving your voice so clear to show the way.— Amanda Villavicencio wrote.
Two months before the killing, on June 8, he demanded that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador address the drug trafficking problem as criminal organizations had managed to expand their illegal business into Ecuador.
“Our Motherland is the largest victim of the criminal operations of the world’s largest drug mafias. But these mafia and cartels are not Ecuadorian. It is not that they flourished in the beautiful city of Chon or in Esmeraldas; mafia from mexico: Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generacion, and now the Albanian mafia,” Villavicencio said.
In a post on social networks, Villavicencio assured that Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) They were responsible for criminal operations carried out in Ecuador.
We are not going to allow organized crime, run by these schools of hitmen, drug criminals from Colombia and Mexico, to continue to claim innocent victims in this country.
The candidate called on President Lopez Obrador to take decisive action to confront drug trafficking groups.