Who Fernando was
Villavicencio fought against drug trafficking and ties with the many, too many Latin American politicians double-linked with the mafias and funded by crime.
Fernando Villavicencio, the 59-year-old presidential candidate killed yesterday in Ecuador, was a courageous activist and a great investigative journalist. His scoops on corruption and the millionaire bribes that financed the extinct Alianza País party of former President Rafael Correa were fundamental for the opening of a judicial investigation, which ended with the final eight-year sentence of Correa (now a fugitive in Belgium), his former vice president Jorge Glas and other officials of their political side, all aligned on the positions of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.