Colombia emerald magnate assassinated
Colombia emerald magnate assassinated
Sep 12, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema
Emerald trader Luis Murcia has been found killed in central Colombia, a local newspaper reported on Friday. The apparent assassination sparks fears over an escalation of violence surrounding the country’s lucrative emerald business.
According to Boyaca 7 Dias, Murcia was found dead in Arbalaez, a rural municipality in the central Cundinamarca department and only 20 miles from the capital Bogota.
The body of the trader was lying next to an armored car. Murcia reportedly had been shot seven times. His bodyguards were nowhere to be found, reported Boyaca 7 Dias.
Murcia was one of the key players in Colombia’s “Green Wars” of the 1980s during which competing emerald miners, joined by paramilitary groups and private armies, waged a war in central and east Colombia that killed more than 6,000.
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