Guzmán Quintero Torres

Year: 1999

Nationality: Colombia

Killed by: Paramilitary Group

Location: Valledupar, Colombia

Press organization: El Pilón

What's Guzmán Quintero Torres's story?

Quintero, editor of the daily newspaper El Pilón in the northern town of Valledupar, was shot and killed by two assassins on a motorcycle, At 10:00 p.m., Quintero was seated in Los Cardones Hotel and Restaurant, where he often stopped on his way home from work. He was relaxing with two colleagues from the newspaper when a single assassin entered the hotel and shot the journalist four times before escaping on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice.

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