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Andrés Felipe Guevara, 27, was attacked with gunshots when he was in the company of a friend in the Mariano Ramos neighborhood, southeast of Cali. Guevara was a judicial journalist for the newspaper Q’hubo. Journalists from all over the country ask that the facts be clarified and freedom of the press be guaranteed.
Andrés Felipe Guevara Henao, 27, was the victim of a hit man attack when he was in the company of a friend in the Mariano Ramos neighborhood, southeast of Cali. Guevara worked in the judicial section of the newspaper Q’hubo. The journalist was hit by the shots four times: two in the stomach, one in the thorax and another in the leg. After the attack, he was transferred to a clinic in Cali to undergo surgery. Although on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 22, the family reported that he had awakened and was responding favorably to treatment, this Wednesday, December 23, he passed away.
Read: Journalist in Cali was the victim of a hitman attack
In the events, which occurred around 9 p.m. on Monday, December 21, Jorge Andrés Arbeláez López, who was with the reporter, was also injured.
Guevara studied social communication and journalism at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente de Cali. He has been working at Q’hubo for three years. According to close friends, colleagues and acquaintances, the victim had not received threats. The facts are the subject of investigation by the authorities.
The Foundation for Press Freedom regretted the death of Guevara and reiterated the demand that the authorities investigate “with speed and impartiality this case and that they take as their first hypothesis the work of the journalist in Q’hubo.”
#AlertFLIP | We regret to report that this afternoon journalist Felipe Guevara died of complications from the bullet wounds he received on December 21 in eastern Cali.
This news makes us very sad. We accompany your family and friends. pic.twitter.com/URBiCCwq8U
– FLIP (@FLIP_org) December 23, 2020
This fact has generated commotion among journalists throughout the country who demand that the authorities make the necessary efforts to clarify the events that caused Guevara’s death. They say that this is essential to guarantee freedom of the press.
Faced with the irremediable, we ask the @FiscaliaCol to act in the clarification of the murder of journalist Felipe Guevara, of @QhuboCali. Let justice be done, find those responsible.
Meanwhile, one cannot speak of guarantees or freedom of the press.
– Jose Guarnizo (@JoseGuarnizoA) December 23, 2020
Today I am sorry for the murder of a colleague, whom I did not know but who makes me feel pain because in Colombia life is worth nothing. After fighting for his life, and after a bullet attack, the journalist from @QhuboCali Andrés Felipe Guevara. This crime cannot go unpunished. pic.twitter.com/UgUe8lWhin
– alex macias (@alextinta) December 23, 2020
So far in 2020, 1,025 homicides have been registered in Cali, 45 cases in December, according to data from the Police and the Inter-Institutional Committee on Deaths from External Causes.
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