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Brigitte García became Ecuador’s youngest mayor last year at the age of 26. Social network photo.

Ecuadorian police said Sunday that the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, a city plagued by gang violence, has been shot dead.

Ecuadorian police said Sunday that the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, a city plagued by gang violence, has been shot dead.

Brigitte García became the youngest mayor of a South American country last year at the age of 26.

Among other things, she was concerned about improving the supply of drinking water for the approximately 17,000 inhabitants of the city of San Vicente, 100 km east of Guayaquil.

The bodies of Ms García and her spokesman Jair Loor were found Saturday night in a car on a Pacific beach near San Vicente, police said.

“I am devastated,” former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who like García belongs to the leftist Civic Revolution Movement, wrote on the X social network.

The party’s presidential candidate Luisa González, who ran last year and lost in the second round, wrote: “No one is safe in Ecuador.”

Several politicians were assassinated in Ecuador last year.

Eleven days before the first round of the presidential election in August, candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who had promised to fight corruption, was shot dead after a campaign event in Quito. The government blamed organized crime gangs for his death.

Ecuador is a transit country for cocaine, and several criminal syndicates are fighting for control of the smuggling routes.

The security situation in Ecuador has recently deteriorated significantly. Last year, there were about 46.5 homicides per 100,000 residents, the highest homicide rate in the country’s history and one of the highest in Latin America.

In January, the government of President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency, which remains in effect, after a series of bloody fights in Ecuadorian prisons, some of which are controlled by gangs, and the escape of one gang leader.

Mr. Noboa also issued a decree designating 22 criminal groups as terrorist organizations and military targets.

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