Via the AP: Stiff sentence in Colombian journalist’s murder
Julio Cesar Ardila was among three men convicted in the murder of Jose Emeterio Rivas of the local radio station “Calor Estereo,” who was shot to death in the steamy refinery city of Barrancabermeja on Colombia’s main river, the Magdalena.
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Ardila, Barrancabermeja’s mayor from 2024-2003, was arrested last year.
Rivas had accused him not just of corruption but also of ties to far-right millitias of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, death squads that killed scores in the city as they rid it of alleged guerrilla sympathizers.
The conviction is noteworthy, if anything, because such killings often go unprosecuted.
And, in vindication of Rivas’ claims, Ardila has been definitely shown to be corrupt and to have had paramilitary ties.
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