“Journalist Patricio Aguilar, director of the newspaper ‘El Libertador’ in Esmeraldas, was shot dead this Tuesday, March 4, as reported by Fundamedios (Andean Foundation for Media Observation and Study).
The crime occurred around 5:00 p.m. inside a home, after a man contacted him under the pretext of carrying out journalistic coverage.
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The communicator was investigating a recent shooting in the area and, hours before, he had denounced on social networks the growing insecurity and crime that plague the sector.”
