Violence as soon as once more mourns the Colombia and it hinders press freedom. A Colombian journalist was murdered on Saturday on the border with Venezuela, introduced the Folks’s Defender, a public physique accountable for making certain respect for human rights.
No less than 170 journalists have been murdered in Colombia since 1977, in response to the NGO Basis for Freedom of the press (FLIP).
A journalist working specifically on organized crime
Cristian Herrera, who was a part of the board of administrators of FLIP, was assassinated within the border metropolis of Cúcuta (north-east). A killer driving a motorbike shot the journalist. He died in hospital, in response to native media.
“Violence is as soon as once more hitting journalism in Colombia,” mentioned the Ombudsman in an announcement on corruption and to the state of affairs in Catatumbo”, a area additionally bordering Venezuela, the scene of violent clashes between guerrillas.
The journalist, who had been threatened, benefited from authorities safety measures which “didn’t achieve stopping his assassination”, additional indicated the Folks’s Defender.
