Hitmen shoot journalist and social leader in Colombia

The communicator “made complaints and news about the local administration and about insecurity in the municipality,” the Colombian NGO Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) detailed on Twitter. “We call on the authorities to consider within their investigation the relationship of this murder with the journalistic work of Córdoba,” the organization requested on Twitter.

Reward of $4, dollars2022

The Institute for the Development of Studies for Peace (Indepaz), which monitors homicides at its observatory, said that Córdoba was “recognized in the union and the community for its work to report security.” Meanwhile, the representative to the Chamber Erick Velasco assured that in previous days Córdoba “had denounced intimidating messages”. leaders assassinated in the department so far 2022”, while Indepaz has reported 550 murders of social leaders throughout the country so far this year. The mayor’s office of La Unión offered a reward equivalent to $4 dollars “for information that leads to the identification and capture” of the responsible for the crime.