Editor
Six people have been arrested in Ecuador late on Thursday in connection with the killing of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a day earlier.
Villavicencio, a well-known anti-corruption crusader who was polling in fifth place, was shot dead as he left a campaign event in the capital, Quito.
Although the gunman was killed in a shootout with police, Interior Minister Juan Zapata described the killing as a “political crime of a terrorist nature” aimed at sabotaging the…
