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1. Pedro Briones, a local leader of Citizen Revolution Movement, is assassinated by gunmen in the northern province of Esmeraldas.
   2023-08-15 18:02:12 (First version)
2. Pedro Briones, a local leader of the Citizen Revolution Movement, is assassinated by gunmen in the northern province of Esmeraldas.
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