A reporter with Paraguay's ABC Color newspaper was shot dead yesterday (16 October), becoming the third journalist to be murdered in the country this year.
Pablo Medina was ambushed by two gunmen while driving back to the eastern town of Curuguaty after covering a story in nearby Crescencio Gonzalez. He died along with a passenger, 19-year-old Antonia Almada. Another woman in the car escaped unhurt and raised the alarm.
ABC Color said Medina left Curuguaty for several weeks earlier this year after receiving threats in connection with his reporting. According to Paraguay's interior minister, Francisco de Vargas, the threats were made by marijuana growers.
Medina's brother, radio journalist Salvador Medina, was murdered in 2001.
The two other Paraguayan journalists killed in 2014 were Edgar Pantaleon Fernandez Fleitas, who was shot dead on 19 June in his home in Concepcion, and Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz, who was murdered on 16 May in Pedro Juan Caballero, a town on the border with Brazil.
Source: Latin American Herald In Spanish: ABC Color
