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...Fernando Cano, a current Nieman Fellow and editor in chief of El Espectador, Colombia's largest newspaper, accepted the award on behalf of the Colombian journalists...
Lipinski said the award was presented to Cano because of El Espectador's enduring history of opposition to the Colombian drug lords...
...Cano said that narco-terrorists have killed nine of El Espectador's reporters since 1984, one of whom was his father. Cano himself was forced into exile in 1989 because of threats against his life...
Broadcast journalists are perhaps the most at risk. Pool techniques do not work for on-the-air reporters, who can be identified by their faces or voices. Despite Pulido's bravery, many print-news executives, in fact, share the feeling of El Espectador director Juan Guillermo Cano, 35. Says he: "I think the radio people are more intimidated, and it shows in their reporting." In some cases, darker forces than fear may be at work. A small radio network, Radial 2000, was listed among the business interests of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Bogota Mafia superchief who is wanted by authorities...
Sunrise was more than an hour off, and most of Managua was still asleep when the bombs exploded. "The earth moved," recalled Sergio Cano, a laborer. "We thought the gringos had started bombing." The blast in the Nicaraguan capital signaled neither an earthquake nor an armed invasion from the north but an unusually bold contra attack on an electrical tower. While residents slumbered in the dusty neighborhood of Domitila Lugo, rebels had scaled the high-voltage pylon and placed explosives on the metal crossbars. The explosion shattered windows and broke dishes in nearby homes, but no one was hurt. Indeed...