GUAYAQUIL: To do their work of reporting the news -- a crucial job ahead of Sunday's looming presidential election -- many journalists in Ecuador now ...
Ecuador’s presidential candidate for the Revolucion Ciudadana party, Luisa Gonzalez, delivers a speech during a campaign rally in Quito, on October 11, 2023. AFPPIX: To do their work of reporting the news -- a crucial job ahead of Sunday's looming presidential election -- many journalists in Ecuador now don bulletproof vests and helmets.
As the conflict between groups with links to Mexican and Colombian cartels has escalated -- with the country's murder rate quadrupling in four years -- three reporters were among the fatalities in 2022, according to NGOs.In August, Fernando Villavicencio --a journalist-turned-presidential candidate with a history of speaking out against the cartels -- was assassinated in broad daylight while on the campaign trail.
In Guayaquil, many reporters go to work in bulletproof vests and helmets, similar to their colleagues covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Prior to his death in a barrage of submachine gun fire, Villavicencio said he had received threats from “Los Choneros,“ a gang with links to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and Colombia’s Gulf Clan.Cesar Ricaurte of the Fundamedios press watchdog told AFP “the pattern of violence” in Ecuador has changed.
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