ABAD GÓMEZ, HÉCTOR
Killed on 1987
Country: Colombia
Media: EL MUNDO

He was assassinated on August 25 after her name appeared on lists published by right-wing death squads in Colombia. He was a human rights activist.

ABAD LÓPEZ, ALFREDO
Killed on 2000
Country: Colombia
Media: VOZ DE LA SELVA

He was killed in a hail of gunfire at point blank range in the early morning of December 13 while saying good bye to his wife at the doorstep of his home in Florencia. Abad, 36, was Director of Voz de la Selva, he was also affiliated Caracol a nationwide radio network, and taught journalism at the University of Florencia. He had been investigating the murder of a fellow radio journalist, brutally assassinated.

ABEL BUENO LEÓN, JESÚS
Killed on 1997
Country: México
Media: SIETE DÍAS

He was found dead of a gunshot to the head on May 23 near a highway in the southern state of Guerrero. The police reported that Bueno Leon also had his back broken. He was director of the weekly Siete Días, and had also served as press advisor of the state governor. Well Leon was one of seven journalists accused of defamation for publishing articles linking the former Mexican secretary of state, Rubén Robles Catalán, with the killing by police of a lawyer in 1995.

ACERO CADENA, ERNESTO
Killed on 1995
Country: Colombia
Media: INFORMADOR SOCIOECONÓMICO

This veteran reporter received three shots of an unidentified assailant in Armenia, Quindío. During his 10 year career as a journalist he was best known for his belligerence against corruption.

ACEVEDO, GUSTAVO
Killed on 2005
Country: Venezuela
Media: Reportero Gráfico

Five of July 2005 in Caracas (Venezuela) found the body of photographer Gustavo Acevedo, after the disappearance of eleven days. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage product of a severe trauma, the autopsy indicated.

ACOSTA, VÍCTOR OMAR
Killed on 2002
Country: Colombia

Journalist killed in Yumbo (Colombia), who had denounced acts of local corruption in the past and had been removed away from his profession in 2000. He was killed on May 11.

ADUR, CLAUDIO
Killed on 1976
Country: Argentina
Media: CRISIS y EL CRONISTA COMERCIAL

Disappeared in November at the age of 26. He was a teacher and journalist. We are unaware of the details and circumstances of his death. Part of those who disappeared during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

AGUILERA LUCAS, LEODEGARIO
Dissapeared 2004
Country: México
Media: Revista Mundo Político

Editor of the political world. He was kidnapped in Acapulco in May 2004 and is still as missing.

AGUIRRE, JORGE
Killed on 2006
Country: Venezuela
Media: El Mundo

On April 6, 2006, the photographer Jorge Aguirre, the Evening World, the chain Capriles, was killed while covering a protest against a wave of crime by Boris Blanco Arcia, 33, former police officer from Caracas, ceased to function in October 2005, who shot from the motorcycle he was driving Charly Briceño, another police officer.

AHUMADA BARROS, RODRIGO
Killed on 1991
Country: Colombia
Media: RADIO GALEÓN

He died on October 8 at a hospital in Bogota after several gunmen opened fire on his car on September 26 in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta. He had been campaigning for Congress. He was director of a radio station whose antennae had been destroyed during attacks with dynamite.