REMOVED.– In videos broadcast on social networks, a group of hooded people, dressed in black and covering their faces, claim to be part of the Los Lobos gang and claim to be responsible for the murder of Fernando Villavicencio, candidate for the presidency of Ecuador.
After claiming the murder of Villavicencio, the hooded men say “We want to make it clear to the entire Ecuadorian nation that every time corrupt politicians do not fulfill their promises to establish, when they receive our money, which is millions of dollars, to finance their campaign, they will be discharged.”
In the message they assure that the assassinations of politicians “will be repeated when the corrupt do not keep their words” and they send a message to another presidential candidate named Jan Topic. “You too Jan Topic keep your word, if you don’t keep your promise Jan Topic you will be next”sentence the group.
Prior to this message, but after the murder of Villavicencio, the politician Jan Topic said he regretted the crime, sent a message of condolences and solidarity to his family, followers and friends and assured that “today more than ever the need to act with strong hand against crime. May God have him in his glory.”
Who are The Wolves?
According to Insight Crime, Los Lobos are one of the key criminal actors responsible for the increase in insecurity in Ecuador due to new criminal tactics such as prison massacres and the use of explosives in their attacks.
Added to this, as they push the illegal mining industry forward, they also display bodies hung from bridges as a warning to authorities and other gangs.
At the moment the authorities are investigating the veracity of the video of the adjudication of the crime.
