"This Monday, March 27, six armed men arrived at the facilities of El Heraldo, in Barranquilla [north of the country]. Two of them entered and demanded to speak with the newspaper's managing director, Erika Fontalvo. Three journalists had to go out to talk to the members of the armed group, who told them that they had a message from Digno Palomino, their leader, who allegedly wanted to join the negotiations for total peace and requested the publication of an interview that the criminal gang had conducted.
Similarly, last week, a member of the criminal group Los Costeños called the editorial office of El Heraldo and demanded that their leader, alias "El Castor," be interviewed. Zona Cero, a digital news outlet in Barranquilla, was also the victim of threats via an anonymous message on social media telling them that 'they are going to rot with bombs in their building.'"
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