Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed by hitmen while holding an election rally in Quito last Wednesday. It greatly influenced Ecuadorian society. Region of Murcia.
Right now, inside Valencian Community about 55,000 citizens live Ecuador, When asked about the current situation in their country, some agree with “fear and despair” when they see that their nation is on the way to becoming a narco-state.
Working as a waiter at an Ecuadorian restaurant in Los Arcos, Murcia, Jonathan says every day that his compatriots “increased insecurity on the streets last year” and confirms that “although it is a very beautiful country, I will not return”. Speaking to La Opinión about his parents, who travel to Ecuador every two years, he remembers that they hadn’t traveled in more than three years “out of fear”. Likewise, the young worker regretfully admits that he “wanted to take his son for a visit to show his roots” but that it was now “impossible”.
On the other hand, Sergio, an employee of a booth in the Murcian capital, confirms that he does not like to watch the news: “They’re pulling the trigger for anything in Ecuador right now, there’s too many murders, too many hitmen.”. He also says that he was very worried about his family, that some of them were there, and they said the same thing whenever he wanted to meet them: “I wanted to visit them and they said no, they didn’t come. I don’t want it to happen to me.” there is nothing bad”.
Felipe’s situation is a little more complicated. He lives here in Murcia, separated from his wife and two children, to whom he does his best to send them money whenever he can. But for Felipe, the demand is doubling as his family in Guayaquil is fascinated by the ‘vaccine’, the mafia’s economic extortion practice prevalent in Ecuadorian territory. Felipe’s relatives have to pay 30 to 50 dollars a day.: “My whole family is threatened by gangs. They’ll kill you if you don’t pay. They’re mafias that roam towns and seize power. You can’t do anything against them because they have all kinds of weapons.”
Felipe also explains that the police are not the solution there.. He doesn’t actually trust: “We don’t want to report the police because you report there and you wake up dead the next day.” Despite this, Felipe insists that his land is “a very rich country” and that he will “not put his homeland aside”.
Another of the testimonies that gave a voice to Ecuadorians living in the Murcia Region are the testimonies of Ignacio Santín, the head of the Ecuadorian organization Good People of Europe, Asia and Oceania, who has been deeply saddened by the drift of the country for a while. to this part: “We are horrified, they are killing democracy.” Ignacio lives in Molina de Segura and has left a whole life behind. He has a sister and several nephews, as well as friends and college classmates in Loja, in the south of the country, in Ecuador. According to him, it is the area where most of the drug shipments enter and are then distributed to other countries. related to Latin America and other continents.
Santín also took the opportunity to report this. Ecuadorian community mobilizes to hold ‘great peaceful march’ by denying the violence the country has been going through, and of course the Contruye Movement candidate’s recent crime.
The aim of all Latino associations, and especially Ecuadorian associations, is the realization of concentration. This Sunday from 18:00 at the Jardín de la Seda in Murcia., in order to make visible the “common sense of pain of the people of Ecuador”. Also, the aim of this show is to break the barriers of the Murcian region and turn it into a “national concentration”.