Tragic Murder of Brigitte García, Young Ecuadorian Mayor, Sends Shockwaves Across the Country

2024-03-25 18:40:10
Brigitte García was 27 years old at the time of her murder.

The murder of Brigitte García, mayor of San Vicente, a municipality on the Ecuadorian coast, continues to shock the country, which has reported several homicides last weekend and which is still under internal armed conflict. The Police, after the first analyzes of the crime scene, have revealed new details about the crime against García and Jairo Loor, communications director of the same council.

García and Loor were riddled with several shots on the night of Saturday, March 23. The 27-year-old woman won the February 2023 sectional elections, supported by the Citizen Revolution movement, related to former president Rafael Correa. She was the youngest mayor in the country.

On their . This result of the first investigations creates a line of investigation that maintains that a third person was inside the car and was the one who carried out the murder.

After the first analyzes it was determined that the shots were fired inside the vehicle. (National Police)

The Police also reported that together with the Prosecutor’s Office they are studying the route along which the vehicle where García and Loor were found traveled. To achieve this, they analyze its GPS. In addition, they confirmed that the car was rented.

Since this Monday morning, a burning chapel has been taking place in the Municipality of San Vicente in honor of the mayor. The funeral will be on Tuesday in Canoa, a parish in the sector where García was born.

Leonardo Orlando, prefect of Manabí, a province to which the San Vicente canton belongs, said in an interview that he has been informed of the murders of the husbands of two officials of the municipality led by García: “This is more alarming because it is not two violent deaths, there are four violent deaths in a space of 24 hours, around the cantonal servers of San Vicente,” he stated in La Posta. However, as of midday Monday, the Police have not confirmed these new deaths.

In the early hours of Sunday, March 24, the Ecuadorian Police found the lifeless bodies of Brigitte García, mayor of the coastal city of San Vicente, along with that of an official from that entity who was identified as Jairo Loor. (Credit: Mayor’s Office of San Vicente (Ecuador) / Facebook)

Brigitte García was an Ecuadorian politician notable for her early foray into the political arena and her election as mayor of San Vicente. At age 26, she became the youngest mayor to be elected, as well as being the first person from the rural parish of Canoa to achieve this position. Born into a family of four siblings, García initially studied Nursing, but later decided to dedicate herself to politics and was active in the Citizen Revolution movement. Once in office, she focused on improving drinking water service, a crucial need for the San Vicente community.

His untimely death has represented a significant loss both to his community and to local politics. As reported by Expreso, in San Vicente the pain is visible: “Brigitte García’s smile and her greeting with her people did not occur as usual. It is the saddest Monday for San Vicente. In the council that she led for 10 months there is an atmosphere of sadness, there are tears and pain,” the media wrote.

At an event held this Monday morning in Quito, US Ambassador Michael J. Fitzpatrick condemned the murder of the mayor and Loor and stated: “We fully reject this attack against Ecuadorian democracy. “We call for an end to political and targeted violence and for a full investigation into this case.”

For his part, the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, said that the crime against García “gives us a warning, clear information, that there is narcoterrorism in public institutions and public officials, which we are cleaning up. It will be out very soon.”

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