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As stated before, El Espectador stood firm against drug trafficking and often published articles on related crimes. On 17 December 1986, the then director of El Espectador, Guillermo Cano Isaza, was assassinated in front of the newspaper offices by gunmen paid by Pablo Escobar, after publishing several articles critical of Colombia's drug barons.
On 17 December 1986 as Guillermo Cano Isaza was leaving the offices from El Espectador in his Subaru Leone, one of two hitmen on a motorcycle across the street at a stoplight opened fire at Cano with an Uzi, shooting Cano 4 times in the chest and causing him to lose control of the car and crash into a light pole.
The Catatumbo campaign has been an ongoing period of strategic violence between militia faction groups in the region since January 2018 and a part of the war on drugs; [4] it was developed after a 2016 peace agreement between the country's government (under the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) as an attempt to end the Colombian conflict. [5]
Another influential newspaper is El Espectador, founded in 1887 by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez, was for many years one of the most important dailies in Colombia but due to a financial crisis its circulation was restricted to one edition weekly between 2001 and 2008, when it returned as a daily.
Newspaper Headquarters website El Colombiano: Medellín: www.elcolombiano.com El Bogotano: Bogotá: www.elbogotano.com.co La Crónica del Quindío: Armenia
Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (1854 in San Pedro, Antioquia – 1919 in Medellín) was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper. Cano attended high school at Colegio de Jesús in Medellín, then studied at the Colegio del Estado, which would become University of Antioquia.
Fidel Cano Correa is a Colombian journalist, born 23 November 1965 [1] in Bogotá.Since May 2004 he is the publisher of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.. Cano is a great-grandson of Fidel Cano Gutiérrez, [2] (founder of El Espectador), and a nephew to Guillermo Cano Isaza.
In 2000, the 26-year-old Bedoya was working with Ignacio Gómez at the Bogota daily newspaper El Espectador, covering the Colombian war against terrorism.At the time of her abduction, she was investigating a story on arms trafficking by both state officials and the far-right paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). [1]