Jaime Garzón
Year: 1999
Nationality: Colombia
Killed by: Paramilitary Group
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Press organization: Radionet, Caracol Noticias
What's Jaime Garzón's story?
Two gunmen killed political satirist Jaime Garzón, host of a daily morning show on the Bogotá station Radionet and contributor to a television news program called “Caracol Noticias.” At 6 a.m., as Garzón was driving his Jeep Cherokee to the Radionet studio, two men on a white motorcycle intercepted him, shooting him repeatedly in the head and chest.
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