Rising Violent Crime in Ecuador: An Urgent Issue Dominating the Presidential Debate

2023-08-20 05:00:00

Quito – At the last debate of the presidential candidates in Ecuador before the election on Sunday, one seat remained empty: Fernando Villavicencio should have been there – but he had been shot just a few days earlier. His central theme, the high rate of violent crime, of which he was a victim, had already dominated the entire election campaign, because this problem has assumed enormous proportions in Ecuador: within just six years, the murder rate in the Latin American country has quintupled.

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