Up to date August 25, 2023 at 10:31 a.m. EDT|Printed August 25, 2023 at 2:01 a.m. EDT A photograph of Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is displayed at an off-the-cuff memorial in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Thursday. (EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The Kremlin dismissed hypothesis that it ordered the killing of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorans head to the polls Sunday for a tense election simply days after the brazen assassination of a presidential candidate underscored the extent to which drug violence has consumed this once-peaceful nation. The presidential vote was uncommon from the beginning. President Guillermo Lasso triggered the fast-track election in … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment QUITO, Ecuador — The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has shocked Ecuador simply days earlier than its elections, threatening a brand new period of political violence in a rustic that has traditionally loved relative peace. The South American nation, wedged between coca producers Colombia and Peru, was already rising as … Read more