22 March 2010
Jorge Santana Carbonell
Road accident
Jorge Santana Carbonell, director of the weekly Tribune and news presenter on Channel CQ15 in the southern city of Pasaje, died after spending seven days in a coma following a suspicious road accident.
Santana was hit by a car on 16 March as he rode his motorbike. He told the ambulance crew he was being chased. It was widely assumed the incident was related to crime stories he had written for the Tribune, but this could not be confirmed.