Colombia: Magazine director receives fourth death threat in one month

(CESO-IFJ/IFEX) - "La Verdad" magazine director Pedro Antonio Cárdenas, whose daughter was the target of an attempted kidnapping on 24 October 2007, received another death threat on 29 October at 10:49 a.m (local time). A male voice told him to remember that both Cárdenas and his family were military targets. This is the fourth death threat that the journalist has received in October.

In a separate development, an angry mob questioning the results of the 28 October municipal elections violently attacked the campaign headquarters of mayor-elect Gido Germán Caicedo in Pradera, Valle department, on 28 and 29 October.

Journalist Enoc Romero, who is the mayor-elect's press chief and also hosts a news programme broadcast by radio station Cañaveral Estéreo in Pradera, was therefore unable to leave the campaign headquarters and had to conduct his programme by telephone from the headquarters itself.

Date Posted: 31 October 2007 Last Modified: 31 October 2007