This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchett of the Wall Street Journal headline, Ecuador

declared state of emergency after presidential hopeful kill. In these last hours, Ecuador's

president Lasso said he ordered soldiers into the streets to boost security after gunmen

kill the presidential hopeful in a country hit hard by drug-food-fueled violence. I welcome

Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute has been

my guide on Ecuador for some time now, because the nation has been attacked by organized

gang, arco-terrorism for some time. Violence broke out several weeks ago to note there was

an attack on a mayor of a port city, and that looked to be, say, personal or local about

gang shooting back at leaders who want to curtail them. Now, the death of a presidential

candidate, his name, was Vio Vincencio, and his death has triggered all kinds of self-awareness

in Ecuador that the nation is at risk, hence the emergency order.

Evan, a very good evening to you. There was violence, and now there's an assassination

of a president. We're watching, we're watching, voting within days. It's a week from Sunday.

Who was Vio Vincencio that he should be shot down so cruelly by what are said to be elements

of narcoterism gangs? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, Fernando Vio Vincencio,

who I had the pleasure of knowing personally, was a journalist and an anti-corruption crusader.

He started out making his career in trying to expose some of the petroleum project-related

corruption tied to the Chinese back in the early 2010s. Road to number of books on it later

became a leading opponent to the Corea era corruption in general, and then with Corea being

replaced by Lenin Moreno, and now Guillermo Lasso's government on the center right. Vio Vincencio

actually came to occupy a place in Congress and in heading up an anti-crime commission.

So he was a well-known anti-corruption crusader, and in the process made a lot of enemies.

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