What is Fernando Villavicencio?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Fernando Villavicencio | image = Fernando Villavicencio 2023.jpg | office = Member of the [[National Assembly (Ecuador)|National Assembly]] | term_start = 14 May 2017 | term_end = 17 May 2023 | birth_name = Fernando Alcibiades Villavicencio Valencia | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1963|10|11}} | birth_place = [[Alausí Canton|Alausí]], [[Ecuador]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2023|8|9|1963|10|11}} | death_place = [[Quito]], Ecuador | death_cause = [[Gunshot wound]] to the [[head]] | party = [[Coalition Movement]] (2018&ndash;2021)<br>[[Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country|Pachakutik]] (1995&ndash;2017) }} '''Fernando Alcibiades Villavicencio Valencia''' (11 October 1963 &ndash; 9 August 2023) was an Ecuadorian politician, activist and journalist who was a candidate for [[President of Ecuador]] in the [[2023 Ecuadorian general election|2023 general election]]. He was a member of the [[National Assembly (Ecuador)|National Assembly]] from 2017 until his assassination in [[2023 Ecuadorian political crisis|2023]]. ==Career== Villavicencio was the first to report about detailed security logs on [[Julian Assange]] that staff and security guards at Ecuador's UK embassy kept.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamilos |first=James Ball, Paul |date=1 September 2015 |title=Secret Memos Reveal Julian Assange's Escape Plans From Ecuador's Embassy |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/mr-white-and-mr-blue |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=BuzzFeed |language=en-gb |archive-date=10 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810230107/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamesball/mr-white-and-mr-blue |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, [[Cynthia Viteri]] and Villavicencio sent secret documents to [[WikiLeaks]] showing that Ecuador was using an Italian company to run a [[surveillance]] program that was spying on journalists and political enemies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Glatsky |first=Genevieve |date=10 August 2023 |title=Who Was Fernando Villavicencio? |language=en-US |work=Th