13 February 2006
José Luis León Desiderio
Shooting
Jose Luis Leon Desiderio, 43, was shot three times by a group of individuals who intercepted him near his home on block 15 of Bastion Popular, a poor urban area of northern Guayaquil.
Leon was a well-known journalist who began his career with the newspaper El Telegrafo 22 years ago and later worked for a number of radio stations, including Z1 and Radio Minutera, where he presented the show Opinion, on which, according to Hugo Asencio, a friend and colleague of the victim at Z1 Radio, allegations were made and "he would speak out against crime, which in Guayaquil is unstoppable and no official is doing anything about it", Asencio said.
The journalist said that this could be the motive for his colleague's murder, as his belongings were found next to his body at the scene of the crime. "They didn't steal anything, his things were there. The murder was unquestionably an act of revenge and nothing more", Asencio said.
