The widow of the assassinated presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio (who was shot dead in the late afternoon of August 9), Veronica Sarauz, has asked for “silence!” to the president of Mexico, Manuel Lopez Obradorwho This morning he suggested that Villavicencio’s crime was aimed at affecting Correismo’s presidential candidacy.
«The statement by the president of Mexico regarding the assassination of my husband Fernando Villavicencio is regrettable. The progressive forces that he defends so much are linked to organized crime and drug trafficking«Said Sarauz in a statement published on X.
«They are officially suspected of participating as intellectual authors of the horrendous crime, which had a profound impact on the country’s democracy. On behalf of my family I demand respect for the memory of Fernando and President López Obrador, silence!has added.
“You have no moral quality to talk about democracies when in your country you maintain links with groups that respond to these same groups that operate in our country”.
What López Obrador said
López Obrador said this morning: “Today I was talking about how, in a very strange way… There were elections in Ecuador, the candidate of the progressive forces was about 10 points ahead, 10 points. Like three, four, five more candidates. So, A candidate who speaks ill of the candidate at the top is suddenly assassinated, and the candidate who was at the top falls, and the candidate who was in second rises.. But The candidate who remains a suspect after this murder continues campaigning in circumstancesI consider it very difficult because imagine all the media, but she goes on and on and on.”
«And what they implement. What is the second stage? “They create a rarefied atmosphere of violence”, to the point that the candidates go to the debates with bulletproof vests, and this is spread by all the media… But all armed!he added.
Following the statements of President López Obrador, the Government of Ecuador decided declare the Mexican ambassador in Quito, Raquel Serur, persona “non grata”.
Non-intervention
The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador, in a statement, invoked the principle of “non-intervention” in the internal affairs of another country and the Vienna convention to take the diplomatic measure that implies the departure of the ambassador from the country.
In addition, he indicated that Ecuador is still experiencing “mourning” for the shooting of Villavicencio, which occurred in August of last year, when the then presidential candidate was leaving an electoral political rally in a busy neighborhood in northern Quito, in broad daylight. .
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