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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...
...liberal daily El Espectador saw its editor-owner assassinated in 1986. Five employees have been slain since. The paper was bombed twice, most recently in September; the $2.5 million damage tally included destruction of the computer system and presses. Yet El Espectador has not missed a day of publication and has kept up the drumbeat against the cartels. Even harder hit was the country's second oldest newspaper, the Bucaramanga-based Vanguardia Liberal, which supported the government's crackdown and was all but destroyed in an Oct. 15 bombing. It too kept on publishing. "We are not heroes," says...
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...
...shoot-out between the army and leftist guerrillas thought to have been paid by the drug barons. Also hit were two successive Justice Ministers (one survived), an Attorney General, the police chief of the nation's second largest city, Medellin, and the editor of the newspaper El Espectador in the capital city of Bogota. The drug lords also kidnaped the 33- year-old son of a former President...
Guillermo Cano had just driven away from the Bogota offices of El Espectador in a Subaru packed with Christmas presents when two men on a motorcycle pulled alongside and opened fire with a submachine gun. Cano, 61, editor of the newspaper for 34 years, died 20 minutes later...