Qualla: Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: Introduction https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. It was 6:20 in the evening on August 9, 2023, when Fernando Villavicencio finished speaking at the Colegio Anderson in Quito. He had just wrapped a campaign rally for Movimiento Construye, the small party carrying his late-arriving presidential bid into the final stretch of Ecuador's 2023 general election. Security personnel moved him toward a white truck. Cameras caught what happened next from multiple angles, and the footage has been dissected in Ecuadorian courts ever since. Gunmen opened fire. Nine people were hit. Villavicencio was rushed to a nearby clinic, where he was pronounced dead. One of the attackers, Johan David Castillo Lopez, died in the shootout. Six others were captured within hours. Villavicencio was the first Ecuadorian presidential candidate to be assassinated while campaigning since Abdon Calderon Munoz in 1978. The election was eleven days away.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/6rbp-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: The Journalist Who Named Names https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. Villavicencio had built his career exposing corruption. As a journalist and later an assemblyman, he had been central to reporting on oil deals, alleged ties between politicians and drug traffickers, and misuse of public funds. In September 2022, he said he had survived an earlie...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/6rbp-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-the-journalist-who-named-names.mp3 0:06 2 full Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: Who Pulled the Trigger https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. The gunmen were Colombian, police quickly established. Johan David Castillo Lopez died from wounds sustained in the firefight. Six others were detained within hours, along with firearms and grenades. Warrants for some of them had actually been issued only two hours before the att...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/6rbp-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-who-pulled-the-trigger.mp3 0:06 3 full Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: The Order from Prison https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. On February 27, 2024, a preparatory hearing revealed the prosecution's theory. According to attorney Ana Hidalgo, the orders for the assassination had been given by Carlos Edwin Angulo Lara - a leader of the Los Lobos gang nicknamed El Invisible - from inside the Latacunga Penite...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/6rbp-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-the-order-from-prison.mp3 0:06 4 full Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: Who Paid For It https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. The gunmen were convicted. The actual masterminds behind the killing remained an open question for more than two years. On September 3, 2025, prosecutors charged former minister Jose Serrano, former lawmaker Ronny Aleaga, and businessman Xavier Jordan as intellectual authors of t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/b/p/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-wp/6rbp-assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio-who-paid-for-it.mp3 0:06 5 full Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio: An Election Under a Shadow https://qualla.com/assassination-of-fernando-villavicencio/ Photo credit Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador from QUito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. President Guillermo Lasso declared three days of national mourning and a 60-day state of emergency. The election still went forward on August 20, 2023, as scheduled. Villavicencio's name and face remained on the printed ballots because there was no time to reprint them; votes cas...

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