2023-08-18 03:34:46
The campaign for elections in Ecuador it is marked by assassinations committed against political leaders. The campaign closing caravan of the Ecuadorian presidential candidate Daniel Noboa Azin was interrupted on Thursday when shots were heard, for which the leader had to take refuge inside a vehicle.
The attack came a week after the assassination of another candidate for Sunday’s elections, which are taking place amid a climate of violence in the country.
Noboa Azín, candidate for the ADN alliance, closed his campaign yesterday with a tour of the streets of Durán, Guayas Canton, which remains under a state of emergency due to the recently registered acts of violence.
when the businessman greeted the citizens several shots were heard, for which an immediate rout was generated to seek refuge in the vehicles. So far no deaths or injuries have been reported.
After the incident, the security team moved Noboa Azín to a safe place and the proselytizing tour was cancelled.
“This country is hell because of the mafias,” said the candidate DNA Assemblyman Jonathan Parra on his X social network account (former Twitter), while confirming the shooting.
“They just attacked Daniel, they just wanted to shoot him,” is heard in a video broadcast by one of Noboa’s supporters on a digital platform.
According to police sources, consulted by the digital media Primicias, the alert was not registered to ECU 911, the emergency number, and what happened is being investigated, since it was unofficially indicated that the attack was not directed at Noboa.
According to these sources, it was a confrontation between criminal gangs from Duránwhich happened precisely at the time of the candidate’s journey.
This fact is reported one week after the assassination of the representative of the Construye Movement, Fernando Villavicencio, who died after being shot at outside a political rally in Quito.
In this climate, the Former Vice President Glas (2012-2018) denounced today that he was intimidated by alleged agents of the judicial police that they threatened to take him back to jail and he claimed to fear for his life and that of his children.
«I denounce before you that I fear for my life and the lives of my children. I was intimidated by the judicial police during my first press conference in my office in Urdesa. While I was at that press conference, two vehicles with falsified license plates, with seven police officers inside, got out, said they had an arrest warrant against me, with judicial police license plates around their necks, with all the appearance of be intelligence agents or from who knows where,” Glas said.
In a press conference, the former vice president stated that two black vehicles had been chasing him in recent days.
“Of the black vehicles have been following me for four days. They have killed a candidate, they have killed a councilor, they have killed thousands of people. I fear for my life and I make an urgent call to all candidates, from all political parties, to have private security because their lives are at risk,” he said, quoted by the Sputnik agency.
Glas indicated that these threats he received are part of a political conspiracy and pointed out that he has images showing cars whose license plates are non-existent.
«All this has the smell of a conspiracy on all sides and the international media are beginning to say it. It is very serious because there are people killed in the middle. They are following me, they have intimidated me. I will circulate the images with everyone so they can see them, “he stressed.
Glas, who recalled that since 2019 he has been the beneficiary of precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), said that he only seeks the right to truth and freedom and considered that he is persecuted for belonging to the Citizen Revolution movement ( RC, left), led by Rafael Correa.
Glas urged presidential candidates to take more care of their security and pointed out that what happens to him is inconsequential in this political process.
The former deputy president made statements in recent days to inform the country regarding the ruling of the Brazilian justice that annulled the evidence presented in the trial against him for the corruption case of the Odebrecht company, for which he served 5 years and 4 months from jail.
Also on Thursday, former President Correa denounced to the digital outlet Outsiders that followers of Revolución Ciudadana were threatened and left offensive messages at the doors of their homes, in the south of Quito.
He said, these threats came after the assassination of Villavicencioa fact that he described as a “plot” to harm his political party and subtract votes from the candidate of the RC, Luisa González, favorite for the early elections next Sunday, according to the polls.
More than 13 million people are qualified for the elections on Sunday, in which they will choose who will complete the mandate of Guillermo Lasso until May 2025 and the 137 members of the National Assembly.
Last May, the president appealed to the constitutional figure of “cross death”, which implied the dissolution of the Legislature and the call for new elections to avoid being dismissed by Parliament for accusations of corruption.
Source: Telam Agency
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