Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa announced that a member of his party was assassinated on Saturday, on the eve of television debt, which will mark the official launch of the campaign for the second round of the presidential election.

The President of Ecuador, who seeks his re -election on April 13th in the second round The proceedings with the opponent of the Evangelical Lawyer and a candidate for Left Louisa Gonzalez has turned the fight against drugs and crime gangs into the central issue of his campaign.

“As soon as they murdered Narciso Saldariaga,” a former elected in the Kanuto community, the state leader said via X.

According to Mr. Nokopa, Narcisso Saldariaga was an electoral “representative” of his lineupof the ADN party, in the northern Manavi, a province west of Kito where they are known to act gangs of organized crime.

This murder “will not go unpunished,” he said. “They want to impose themselves by instilling fear, as they have done for over a decade. They want to link the elections to their interests and act without any control, “he added, without clarifying who specifically.

Daniel Noboa, who took power in November 2023 to complete his predecessor’s term, is seeking his re -election for a second, full term. Louisa Gonzalez’s opponent, heir to former socialist President Rafael Korea (2007-2017), comes from Kanuto.

‘It is clear that want to sow fear To the citizens of Ecuador, “insisted President Noboa, who won completely marginally (by 0.2% against his opponent) in the first round of the presidential election in February.

More than 30 politicians, judges and journalists have been killed in Ecuador in 2023, among them the presidency candidate Fernando Viavissenio, who had been killed by a group of executors while leaving a pre -election event before the first round of the pre -election.

Since 2024, President Noboa has declared ‘war’ against gangs of drug traffickersdeveloping the army inside.

On Tuesday, he announced that he had closed an agreement on the creation of a “strategic alliance” with Eric Prinas, the founder of the mercenary company, which was once known under the name Blackwater.

In part because of its geographical location, between Colombia and Peru – the two countries at the top of the world rankings in the production of cocaine – and its strategic ports in the Pacific Ocean, the Ecuador, a country with a dollar economy, has been transformed into the last few years in the last few years. and Europe.

The Latin America’s homicide index took off, crossing 6 per 100,000 in 2018 at 38 per 100,000 in 2024, after the horrifying record of 47 in 2023.