Villavicencio

Colombians also were implicated in the 2023 killing of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

Gabriela Cajo, 39, who backed a candidate from the party of assassinated 2023 presidential hopeful Fernando Villavicencio, expressed frustration with the lack of progress on crime.

In August, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was gunned down as he was leaving a campaign rally in the capital, Quito.

Prosecutors investigating Villavicencio's murder said it had been planned from inside jail by members of the Los Lobos criminal gang.

Ms García is the latest politician to be killed in the Andean country, which last year was rocked by the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.