Colombia - New plot to murder investigative reporter Gonzalo Guillén
Colombia - New plot to murder investigative reporter Gonzalo Guillén
Source: Reporters Without Borders - Fri, 30 May 2014 06:08 GMT
Author: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about new threats to independent journalist Gonzalo Guillén in connection his coverage of the now imprisoned former governor of the northeastern department of La Guajira, Juan Francisco "Kiko" Gómez, and Gómez's involvement with organized crime.
Guillén, who reports for the Miami Herald and two Colombian newspapers, El Tiempo and El País de Cali, was notified by the prosecutor-general on 22 May of a new plan to murder him, the second in just over a year.
He is said to have been in Gómez's sights ever since writing about his close links with a "bacrim" (criminal gang formed by former paramilitaries) in La Guajira for the 4 May 2013 issue of the magazine Semana.
After two armour-plated vehicles chased Guillén nine days ago, on 21 May, the number of bodyguards assigned to him by the interior ministry's National Protection Unit was immediately increased from two to nine.
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http://www.trust.org/item/20140530170632-qp4iq/
