The band 'Los Lobos' denies in a second video its participation in the murder of Villavicencio

The armed group 'Los Lobos', active in Ecuador and linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, has released a video to deny that alleged members of the organization claim responsibility for the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, which fuels doubts about the intellectual authorship of a crime for which six people have already been arrested.

The first video, broadcast on social networks, shows a group of people with their faces covered and claims the shooting attack against Villavicencio, even warning of new actions against “corrupt politicians”.. This message identifies candidate Jan Topic of the Christian Social Party as “next.”

However, a second video in which more than a dozen men dressed in white appear ask the population “not to be fooled”. “We clarify and reject the assassination of the candidate for the Presidency, Mr. Fernando Villavicencio. And we make it clear that we have never murdered people from the government or civilians,” explains one of them.

The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, has decreed a state of emergency for this crime, which has put the country in mourning just over a week before presidential and parliamentary elections are held.. Said process continues and Villavicencio's party, the Construye Movement, must now clarify if it names a substitute for the candidacy.