Ecuadorian Pres. decrees 60-day state of emergency after attack on Villavicencio candidate

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The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, decreed this Thursday a state of emergency throughout the country for 60 days, after the security cabinet meeting for the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. teleSUR

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00:00 Ecuador, the President Guillermo Lasso declared on Wednesday night a 60-day state of emergency

00:05 and the deployment of the armed forces throughout the national territory, following the murder

00:10 of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

00:13 After concluding the emergency meeting of the Security Cabinet, the head of state decreed

00:18 late on Wednesday the measure that affects the entire national territory.

00:22 Additionally, also announced the deployment of military contingents and decreed a three-day

00:27 morning period to honor the memory of the assassinated candidate.

00:31 In the same speech, the President of the National Electoral Council, Diana Ataman, assured that

00:36 the elections will not be suspended due to these events.

00:48 And as part of the string of violent crimes that shook Ecuador, the bomb squad found an

00:52 explosive device in the same place where Fernando Villavicencio was murdered.

00:57 The package with explosives may have been thrown by hitmen after the attack.

01:02 Afterwards, the officers carried out a controlled detonation in a secured sector of the area,

01:08 a few meters from the clinic where Villavicencio was killed.

01:12 The wave of violence that is shaking the country worsened alarmingly this Wednesday, when even

01:16 the headquarters of his party, Movimiento Coalición, was vandalized.

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