Colombia elections: Candidates face spate of violence
Seven candidates have been killed and more than 60 others have been attacked in the lead up to the October 27 election.
Steven Grattan by Steven Grattan
16 minutes ago
Jhon Jairo Vasquez shows the bullet holes on the front door of his house. He had covered them with campaign stickers to not draw to attention to the violent event [Steven Grattan/Al Jazeera]
Caucasia, Colombia - Nine bullet holes dot the front door and window of Jhon Jairo Vasquez's home in the northern town of Caucasia in Colombia's Bajo Cauca region.
Gunmen opened fire on September 11 at 1:30am. It was the day after the 53-year-old local incumbent councillor held a campaign rally, where he spoke against criminal groups and coca production - the base ingredient for cocaine - in the region.
Vasquez said has not slept well since the attack.
"I'm taking sedatives. I've become depressed, but trying to keep going," he told Al Jazeera inside his humble home, where holes from ricocheted bullets mark the walls, many just outside his bedroom where he was sleeping at the time of the attack.
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