Crusading Venezuelan journalist murdered

A crusading Venezuelan journalist, Jesús Flores Rojas, has been murdered in what appears to have been an act of revenge. Flores, 66, was co-director of the daily paper La Región, and a columnist for other papers in the northwestern province of Anzoátegui. He was travelling in a car with his daughter when they were stopped by a gunman who shot him in the head eight times before feeling in a waiting car. He was the second journalist to be killed in Venezuela this year. Flores had made enemies of politicians because of criticisms in his editorials. (Via IFEX.org)