Guzmán Quintero Torres

Guzmán Quintero Torres

Guzmán Quintero Torres was a Colombian journalist and reporter from the city of Valledupar. He was assassinated on 16 September 1999 after writing a series of articles two months before his death in which he denounced the involvement of some members of the Colombian National Army in the erroneous assassination of two women (one of them pregnant) and wounding some eight children after confusing them with guerrillas in the corregimientos of Patillal and San Juan de Rioseco.

Guzmán Quintero Torres
OccupationJournalist
Native CountryColombia
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Biography

Guzmán Quintero Torres Guzmán Quintero Torres was a Colombian journalist and reporter from the city of Valledupar. He was assassinated on 16 September 1999 after writing a series of articles two months before his death in which he denounced the involvement of some members of the Colombian National Army in the erroneous assassination of two women (one of them pregnant) and wounding some eight children after confusing them with guerrillas in the corregimientos of Patillal and San Juan de Rioseco. By the time Quintero Torres was assassinated paramilitary groups, mainly the AUC were in the middle of a fight for territorial power and control against the guerrillas FARC and ELN. Both sides persecuted civilians who they thought supported the other group. Paramilitaries targeted any guerrilla supporters and aiders, human...

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