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Juan Javier Ortega Reyes
Early on March 26, 2018, El Comercio newspaper reporter Juan Javier Ortega Reyes, photographer Paúl Rivas Bravo and their driver, Efraín Segarra, crossed the border from Ecuador into Colombia to chase a story on drug-related violence. A day later, officials confirmed a drug trafficking ring led by former revolutionary Walter "Guacho" Arizala had kidnapped the men, holding them hostage for the release of his imprisoned comrades. On April 13, Arizala leaked a message to a Colombian newspaper that the three captives were dead. Their bodies were found in a pit, with bullet wounds at the back of their skulls indicating the men had been executed. Ortega, 32, had covered the drug trafficking beat for six years at El Comercio. Rivas, 45, was an award-winning photographer who had worked for the newspaper since 1999, often using portraits to tell stories.
Paúl Rivas Bravo
Early on March 26, 2018, El Comercio newspaper photographer Paúl Rivas Bravo, reporter Juan Javier Ortega Reyes, and their driver, Efraín Segarra, crossed the border from Ecuador into Colombia to chase a story on drug-related violence. A day later, officials confirmed a drug trafficking ring led by former revolutionary Walter "Guacho" Arizala had kidnapped the men, holding them hostage for the release of his imprisoned comrades. On April 13, Arizala leaked a message to a Colombian newspaper that the three captives were dead. Their bodies were found in a pit, with bullet wounds at the back of their skulls indicating the men had been executed. Rivas, 45, was an award-winning photographer who had worked for the newspaper since 1999, often using portraits to tell stories. Ortega, 32, had covered the drug trafficking beat for six years at El Comercio. |