"On Friday [July 25], the Colombian government publicly acknowledged its international responsibility for failing to protect journalists Julio Daniel Chaparro and Jorge Enrique Torres, from the newspaper El Espectador, who were killed 34 years ago in the town of Segovia, in the department of Antioquia [in Colombia].
Chaparro, a 29-year-old reporter and poet, and Torres, a 38-year-old photojournalist, were killed by the guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN, for its initials in Spanish) on April 24, 1991, while reporting on the massacre of more than 40 people in the town of Segovia in 1988.
The acknowledgment of responsibility is part of a friendly settlement agreement reached last April before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) between the two journalists' families and the government, which was announced during the Gabo Journalism Festival that began Friday in Bogotá."
