Colombia - Two journalists named by paramilitary organization

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Colombian journalists Leiderman Ortiz Berrio and Edgar Astudillo are among threatened by the paramilitary organization “Los Rastrojos” in a hit list circulated on leaflets in the city of Montería, in the northern department of Córdoba. “If you continue with your political, pro-union, pacifist, leftist proselytizing against our organization, you will pay the price,” the leaflet says. “Our patience has its limits.” “Los Rastrojos” has threatened Ortiz Berrio and Astudillo as “agitators.” The two (...)

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