A candidate for Congress in Ecuador’s upcoming common elections says she was shot and barely injured on the identical day presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down.
Villavicencio’s killing is being linked to organised crime and rising gang violence.
Latin America Editor Lucia Newman stories from Ecuador’s capital Quito.
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