Luis Chonillo was on his way to be sworn in as the mayor of Ecuador’s most murderous city when the gunmen came to murder him. “I’ve got two minutes left to live,” the 39-year-old politician remembers thinking as he cowered in a bathroom after sprinting into a nearby home when his convoy came under attack.
Two police bodyguards and a bystander were killed in the shootout on 15 May last year. Chonillo fled the country