Gunmen killed a Colombian radio journalist, shooting him four times in the head as he went to work, police said on Friday. It was the seventh killing this year of a journalist in war-torn Colombia. William Soto, 45, who had reported on several cases of local corruption, was shot late on Thursday in the port city of Buenaventura, 215 miles southeast of Bogota, the capital. Colleagues said Soto had received death threats. Thousands of people are killed every year in Colombia’s four-decade guerrilla war. Media watchdogs say the Andean nation is one of the most dangerous countries to work as a journalist. Illegal armed groups from the right and left routinely target journalists. Full Story
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