By Ingrid Bachmann
Edgar Astudillo Vásquez, producer of a news program on Radio Panzenú, received a pamphlet—allegedly from a paramilitary group—that said he would be killed before April 20 in any street in his city of Montería in Córdoba Department, El Tiempo and El Heraldo report.
Only three weeks ago, on March 19, reporter Clodomiro Castilla Ospino was killed in his house in the same city. Since then, three journalists in Montería have been threatened: Alexis Tordecilla, a camera operator for a local TV station; Álex Pájaro, a reporter for a regional newspaper; and Astudillo, El Tiempo explains.
The Colombian Federation of Journalists condemned the “criminal intolerance” for journalism and demanded that authorities protect the media workers.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
