This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis, the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies

Institute. The headlines from south of the border are alarming, violence, and at the

same time democracy in motion. I begin with the Reuters headlines, Ecuador candidate

Gonzales says she will use 2.5 billion in reserves to help the economy. At the same time,

another Ecuadorian presidential candidate, Zerita, promises better policing and social

programs. There are many candidates in Ecuador, at least one. His name, Viva Vincencio, he

was murdered some days before by unknown gunmen who are now in custody, said to be Colombians

attached to cartels. Very much what you would hire for a political assassination. Why

shoot a man who is very well known in his own country, but not much outside, has spent

his career as an investigative reporter and a muckbreaker. Old-fashioned word in America.

Well to tell the story, I ask you very much to have some patience here and talk about

the backstory of murder in Keto. Professor, a very good evening to you. Murder in Keto

is apparent and the presidential election goes on with statements made in the debate

over the weekend between the remaining candidates and now in the news, promising handouts, promising

social programs, promising policing. But driving this story is the murder of a man who

was at the time of his death, polling very well and had a strong indication he could finish

in the top two in the election, meaning he would enter into the runoff. You met Viva

Vincencio in 2013, following your reporting most recently. Who was he and what was Ecuador

made in China of that time? What did that represent? Good evening to you, John. Yes, for

me, this was a personal because over the years I had worked with Fernando Viva Vincencio.

He was a journalist whose real core calling had become to expose the corruption associated

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