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"Popeye" called for questioning 32 years after Medellin Cartel assassinated newspaper director
by Adriaan Alsema November 3, 2018
Thirty-two years after the Medellin Cartel assassinated legendary newspaper director Guillermo Cano, Colombia’s prosecution called in one of Pablo Escobar‘s former lieutenants to testify.
Cano was the director of newspaper El Espectador, one of the few news media in Colombia that resisted the cartel’s intimidation and persisted in reporting on Escobar’s drug trafficking activities and corruption of state officials.
This persistence cost Cano his life on 17 December, 1986 when Medellin Cartel hitmen, or “sicarios,” riddled him with bullets while he was leaving the newspaper’s office in Bogota.
The Prosecutor General’s Office never investigated which cartel members and associates took part in the assassination.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/popeye-called-for-questioning-32-years-after-medellin-cartel-assassinated-newspaper-director/
