International News Safety Institute

17 June 2006

José Joaquín Tovar

Incident

José Joaquín Tovar

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

José Joaquín Tovar, the editor of the weekly Ahora, was shot 11 times in Caracas.

A relative said the murder could be linked to his journalism, as he wrote a column for Ahora in which “he criticised both the government and the opposition.”

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