Ecuador fires prison chief, transfers suspects after murders

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso fired the head of the prison service and ordered the transfer of six surviving suspects in the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio after seven others were slain.

The killings at prisons in Guayaquil and Quito highlighted the power of organized crime that has made the nation one of the world’s most violent and will deepen the mystery over who ordered the death of Villavicencio.

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