Pedro Briones, leader of Revolución Ciudadana, was shot a few days after the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
The leader of Citizen revolution (party of former president Rafael Correa) from the Ecuadorian region of Esmeraldas, Pedro Briones, died this Monday after being shot next to his home. The crime took place days after the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
According to police sources quoted by the Ecuadorian newspaper ‘El Universo’, two people on a motorcycle approached a park, where they shot him several times.
Despite the best efforts of both relatives and neighbors to get him to the hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival because of the two gunshot wounds he had received in the left part of the neck.
“Ecuador is living its bloodiest period. We owe this to the total surrender of an incompetent government and a state taken over by the mafia. My hug of solidarity to the family of comrade Pedro Briones, who fell into the hands of violence. Change is urgent! “, has published the presidential candidate of Revolución Ciudadana, Luisa Gonzalezon his Twitter account.
This murder took place just a few days after the murder attack on the presidential candidate of Movimiento Construye, Fernando Villavicencioshocking both the Ecuadorian people and the international community.
This spiral of violence that the country is going through has ended the lives of several politicians, such as the assassination of Rider Sanchez Valenciacandidate for the National Assembly for Esmeraldas of the Actuemos party, or the mayor of Manta, Augustine Intriagowho died on July 23 in a shootout.
Source: EITB
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