Lourenço Veras

Year: 2020

Nationality: Brazil

Killed by: Criminal Group,Paramilitary Group

Location: Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay

Press organization: Porã News

What's Lourenço Veras's story?

On February 12, 2020, at about 9 p.m., two masked men shot and killed Lourenço “Léo” Veras, a Brazilian national and the owner and manager of Porã News, a news website covering organized crime, at his home in the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero, which borders the Brazilian city of Ponta Porã, according to a report by Brazilian broadcaster G1.

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