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Police escort the coffin carrying the remains of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at the Camposanto Monteolivo cemetery, in Quito, Ecuador, August 11, 2023
GUILLERMO LASSO has created a “failed state,” indigenous organisations said at the weekend, blaming Ecuador’s president for a wave of lethal violence including last week’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador said the sooner Mr Lasso steps down, the sooner action to reverse the surge in crime could begin.
Ecuador’s homicide rate has multiplied fivefold in the six years since socialist leader Rafael Correa relinquished the presidency.
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