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Ecuador Assassination Reflects Rapid Rise of Violent Cocaine Trade
Four days before he was shot dead, presidential hopeful Fernando Villavicencio traveled to a dusty town near Ecuador’s Pacific coast, defying one of the country’s most ruthless drug gangs on its home turf.
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