"The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, for its initials in Spanish) reported this Wednesday [May 6] that Colombian journalist Mateo Pérez Rueda, director of the local magazine El Confidente, was killed while reporting in the town of Yarumal, in the department of Antioquia, in northwestern Colombia.
'Pérez Rueda, who had been missing since yesterday, was reporting in the area,' FLIP said in a brief statement on X, where it posted a photograph of the young man—who was also a political science student at the National University of Colombia.
According to Rueda's social media accounts, the young man wrote for that digital outlet, covering local accidents and the armed conflict in the vicinity of Yarumal. As of now, authorities have not issued a statement regarding the death of the young journalist."
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This monitor was translated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Teresa Mioli.
