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Colombia
Campaigns and Advocacy
6 December 2011
IAPA submits two cases of unpunished murders of journalists to IACHR
Julio Chaparro and Jorge Torres were killed on April 24, 1991 in Segovia, where they had been sent by their newspaper, El Espectador of Bogotá, to cover the consequences of a massacre there two years earlier, in which 43 people died.
7 November 2011
President dedicates Chapultepec Declaration signing to murdered Colombian journalists
At the same time, President Juan Manuel Santos unveiled his plan to increase broadband internet access.See all campaign news: Colombia
From the Communiqué
6 July 2011
Journalist killed in violence-ridden area
Independent journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez, who was also a witness for an investigation into links between politicians and paramilitaries, was gunned down last week in Arboletes, Antioquia, in northwest Colombia, report the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP), the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and other IFEX members. He is the first journalist to be killed in Colombia this year, notes the International Press Institute (IPI).
9 February 2011
Threatening pamphlets target media
"Keep supporting the leftist dogs and you will be dead; get out of the city." So reads a pamphlet anonymously left at a radio station in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, in what the Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) terms is a new method of intimidating the press.
27 October 2010
Indigenous leader and journalist killed
A respected indigenous leader and journalist was shot to death on 14 October in the department of Cauca, Colombia, report the Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Two men opened fire on Rodolfo Maya Aricape, the secretary of the López Adentro Indigenous Council and a correspondent for Radio Pa´yumat, while he was home with his wife and two daughters.See all articles: Colombia
Reports
27 January 2012
Criminal gangs intimidate, silence Córdoba journalists
The gangs, known in Spanish as bandas criminales or "bacrim," are the offspring of right-wing paramilitary death squads that fought the country's Marxist guerrillas and trafficked cocaine.
24 June 2010
FLIP report on press freedom in the 2010 presidential election
The report highlights cases where the work of journalists covering political campaigns and rallies was affected.See all reports: Colombia
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