Journalist assassinated in west Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

Journalist assassinated in west Colombia
Mar 3, 2015 posted by Adriaan Alsema



A journalist from the southwest of Colombia has been assassinated, local media reported on Tuesday.

Radio journalist Edgar Quintero was shot seven times while in a bakery near Radio Luna, the local radio station of Palmira where he worked.

Colleagues told newspaper El Tiempo that the journalist had met up with colleagues at the bakery just before his assassination.

According to witnesses, the assassin arrived on a motorbike, entered the bakery between 6:30PM and 7PM, shot Quintero and left.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/journalist-assassinated-in-west-colombia/

[forest444]

1. Santos must be pleased. He already had enough trouble with J.J. Rendón.

Palmira, though nearly-unheard of to most Americans, has become one of the world's hotspots of cocaine money as its low profile at first provided safe haven for narcobosses in neighboring Calí. Those days, however, are long gone, unfortunately for both the bosses and the good citizens of Palmira: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.palmiguia.com/opinion/fernando-estrada/245-tierra-narcotrafico-y-poder-local&prev=search

A pesky investigative journalist like Edgar Quintero might have been in a position to establish definitive links between said bosses and the Santos administration, which in Colombia is a perilous task indeed.

Godspeed, Señor Quintero.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Wow. That kind of violent corruption has had ages to intensify its power, too.

It's easy to see now why so many people have simply left Colombia for good.

One has to hand it to the few journalists who are willing to take up the challenge to try to fight the monsters running the country.

Doesn't take long to know why Colombia is one of the very worst countries in the world for journalists.

Thank you for the background on Palmira. Had never heard of that place in Colombia until seeing the story on Edgar Quintero.

J.J. Rendón, what a toxic, evil clown.