The 27-year-old mayor of the town of San Vicente in Ecuador, which has been rocked by gang violence, was shot dead police said on Sunday. Brigitte García became the youngest mayor in the South American country last year at the age of 26. Among other things, she campaigned for better access to drinking water for the approximately 17,000 inhabitants of San Vicente, some 100 kilometres east of Guayaquil. García’s body and that of her spokesman Jairo Loor were discovered on Saturday night in a car on a Pacific beach near San Vicente, according to police. “I am devastated,” former Ecuadorian presid…