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Ecuador charges ex-minister over presidential candidate assassination case

Prosecutors in Ecuador have charged a former interior minister and six others on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of a presidential candidate in 2023.

  • Ecuador charges seven individuals in 2023 presidential candidate assassination case.
  • José Serrano and Wilmer Pipo Chavarria linked to cartel Los Lobos implicated.
  • Five fugitives remain at large, one extradited from Spain.

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