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Pablo Medina
Organization: ABC Color
Year: 2014
Country: Paraguay
Bio:
A reporter for Paraguay's largest independent newspaper, Pablo Medina received so many death threats for his coverage of the local drug trade that police assigned him his own bodyguard. But despite continued threats, his protection was withdrawn in 2013. Traveling through a region controlled by drug traffickers, Medina was stopped by two men who asked him to identify himself, and then shot him four times in the face and chest. Medina was 53. His 19-year-old assistant also was killed. A local mayor who was involved in drug trafficking was charged with orchestrating the murders. Thirteen years earlier, Medina's brother, a radio journalist, was killed for exposing drug traffickers in the region. |