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On 17 December 1986 as Guillermo Cano Isaza was leaving the offices from El Espectador in his Subaru Leone, one of two hitmen on a motorcycle across the street at a stoplight opened fire at Cano with an Uzi, shooting Cano 4 times in the chest and causing him to lose control of the car and crash into a light pole.
A Washington printing press where the first issue of El Espectador was printed in 1887, Museo Universitario, University of Antioquia, History Collection at San Ignacio Building, Medellín, Colombia. Since 10 February 1915 El Espectador has been simultaneously published in Medellín and Bogotá. Its Medellín edition was suspended on 20 July 1923.
The DAS Building bombing was a truck bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, at 7:30 am on December 6, 1989, targeting the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) headquarters. A truck parked near the building exploded , killing 57 people instantly and injuring 2,248.
The following is a list of notable massacres in Colombia. Most documented massacres have been a part of the wider Colombian conflict (1964-present day). According to the Grupo de Memoria Histórica ( lit.
Unlike the above-mentioned newspapers, El Espectador was not closed down by the dictatorship, but it was permanent target of a strong harassment by the government.On May 11, 1954, Primo Guerrero, a correspondent to the newspaper in Quibdó, was put in jail for having written a report in which he complained on the precarious conditions of the capital of Chocó in comparison with the luxury of ...
Newspaper Headquarters website El Colombiano: Medellín: www.elcolombiano.com El Bogotano: Bogotá: www.elbogotano.com.co La Crónica del Quindío: Armenia
In 2000, the 26-year-old Bedoya was working with Ignacio Gómez at the Bogota daily newspaper El Espectador, covering the Colombian war against terrorism.At the time of her abduction, she was investigating a story on arms trafficking by both state officials and the far-right paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). [1]
Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (1854 in San Pedro, Antioquia – 1919 in Medellín) was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.. Cano attended high school at Colegio de Jesús in Medellín, then studied at the Colegio del Estado, which would become University of Antioquia.