A Plot to Kill Ecuador’s President
The BBC reports that police foiled a plot to assassinate Ecuador’s populist president, Lucio Gutierrez, last February, just after he took office. Details are scant, but it appears “Ecuadorian and Colombian hit men had agreed to a $1.5m contract” to kill Gutierrez. In a Colombian radio interview, Gutierrez said the corrupt business elite wants him dead. And as if that weren’t enough, his own wife recently criticized his political appointees.
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