Paraguay - Second Paraguayan journalist slain near Brazilian border in less than two years

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that local radio journalist Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz was gunned down by two individuals on a motorcycle in the eastern border city of Pedro Juan Caballero on 16 May. Alcaraz, who worked for Radio Amambay, was shot 11 times. Senator Robert Acevedo, the station's owner, said that Alcaraz had often accused people by name of involvement in regional drug trafficking in his radio programme. “It is vital that this murder should not go unpunished, as is (...)

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