26 November 2006
Marino Pérez Murcia
Shooting
Marino was killed on 26 November in Bogotá, under unknown circumstances.
He was shot in the head and abandoned in a dark street where his body was found minutes after by habitants of Galerías neighborhood.
Pérez Murcia, correspondent for Radio Habana, was also a sporadic collaborator for Le Monde daily and worked on news reports for a German television channel. He had worked as correspondent for Colombian radio networks Caracol and Todelar and covered the Persian Gulf War.
According to statements made by his nephew and journalist Harold Pérez to Todelar, the journalist was making advances and contacts for the release of three North American military advisors abducted by FARC guerrilla on February 2003, when their aircraft was gunned down in the Amazon department of Caquetá. "He was focused on getting an exclusive interview with guerrilla commander Simón Trinidad, imprisoned in the United States and used some contacts he had in the FBI to get it", they explained.
