The communicator received “an intimidating message announcing that she is a military target and that from now on her head has a price,” the newspaper said.
Estefania Colmenares Hernandez, director of the Colombian newspaper La Opinion in Cucuta, in the department of Norte de Santander, received death threats through a WhatsApp message on her personal cell phone.
The newspaper detailed that the director received “an intimidating message announcing that It is a military objective and as of today its head has a price“. The text would have been sent on September 6.
According to La Opinion, in recent weeks the newspaper worked “on the irregularities surrounding the hospitalization of the convicted former mayor Ramiro Suarez Corzo, who would be coordinating two political campaigns from the 11th floor of the Erasmo Meoz University Hospital (Huem), where he remains confined. “.
Corzo, former mayor of Cucuta (2004-2007), was sentenced to 27 years in prison, accused of the murder of former mayoral advisor Alfredo Enrique Florez Ramirez.
“The follow-up of this diary generated reactions in different entities that have begun to exercise greater surveillance over the hospital and Suarez’s situation,” the newspaper highlights, after clarifying that it had decided to make public the threats against its director, “as a mechanism of rejection and reiterates its commitment to journalism, to the truth and to investigations that can be carried out to combat corruption”.
Source: RT
