Candidate in Ecuador's presidential political election Fernando Villavicencio fired dead

A prospect in Ecuador'' s honest governmental political election who has actually wared corruption as well as gangs has been fired dead at a campaign rally.

Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the country'' s nationwide assembly, was struck as he left the occasion in the funding, Quito, on Wednesday.

A criminal gang called Los Lobos (The Wolves) has claimed obligation.

Los Lobos is the second-largest gang in Ecuador with some 8,000 participants, a number of whom are behind bars.

The gang has been involved in a variety of current harmful prison battles, in which ratings of prisoners have been completely killed.

A break-away faction from the Los Choneros gang, Los Lobos is believed to have links to the Mexico-based Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), for which it traffics drug.

Suspicion for the killing had very first dropped on Los Choneros, which had threatened Mr Villavicencio last week, but Los Lobos claimed duty in a video in which gang participants wearing balaclavas blinked gang signs and also waved their tools.

Ecuador has traditionally been a fairly secure and secure country in Latin America, however criminal activity has skyrocketed over the last few years, sustained by the growing presence of Colombian and Mexican medication cartels, which have penetrated regional criminal gangs.

The murder comes less than a fortnight before governmental political elections, in which the issue of instability attributes as the top worry.

 A state of emergency has been proclaimed and existing Head of state Guillermo Lasso has promised the "criminal activity will not go unpunished ".

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