Colombian Journalist Reported Missing Following Capture by Rebels
Authorities are searching for the 25-year-old editor after he was detained at a roadblock while covering fighting between the army and rebels.
- On Tuesday, journalist Mateo Pérez Rueda disappeared near Briceño in Antioquia department after being detained at a roadblock by members of the 36th Front, a guerrilla group controlling the zone.
- Pérez, editor of the Yarumal-based news site El Confidente, traveled to Briceño to cover combat between the Colombian army and the 36th Front, a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia .
- Briceño security secretary William Londoño advised Pérez against traveling to the town due to significant security risks, but the journalist ignored the warning and proceeded with his reporting trip.
- During a Thursday news conference, Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez announced rewards totaling $252,000 USD for the capture of 36th Front leaders Neider Yesid Uñates López and John Edison Chala Torrejano.
- Rebels are reportedly blocking humanitarian groups from searching for Pérez, while the Committee to Protect Journalists and Foundation for Press Freedom urge authorities to investigate his disappearance.
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro reported on social media that Mateo Pérez Rueda was found dead after having disappeared last Tuesday.
The missing journalist's body is found in Colombia and his murder is attributed to Front 36
A 25-year-old journalist was murdered by a guerrilla der in northwestern Colombia, reported by President Gustavo Petro.
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BOGOTA, May 9 — A 25-year-old Colombian journalist was found dead yesterday in a restive northwestern region where guerrillas, drug traffickers and illegal gold miners are active, President Gustavo Petro said.Mateo Perez went missing on Tuesday while he was working in a rural part of Antioquia department about five hours’ drive north of Medellin in the run-up to the presidential election on May 31.His body was found in an area where dissident me…
A young reporter was killed by guerrillas in a conflictive region of northwestern Colombia affected by the illegal exploitation of gold, as reported by President Gustavo Petro. Communicator Mateo Pérez, 25, disappeared on Tuesday while he was reporting on the violence prior to the presidential elections of May 31, in a rural area of the department of Antioquia (northwest). Dissidents of the extinct FARC guerrilla who did not sign the peace in 20…
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