Tag: El Comercio

• Saturday, December 22nd 2018 - 15:31 UTC

  Ex FARC still active guerrilla leader Guacho shot dead by Colombian forces

  

  Walter Patricio Arizala, a.k.a. “Guacho,” the FARC dissident behind the kidnapping and murder of three journalists from Quito's El Comercio newspaper, died Friday during an operation of the Colombian security forces in the jungle of Llorente, in the Tumaco municipality of the south-western department of Nariño, near the border with Ecuador, President Iván Duque announced.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 10:56 UTC

  Ecuador and Colombia elite troops after Farc renegades who killed journalists and their driver

  

  Ecuador on Friday confirmed the deaths of two journalists and their driver who had been kidnapped by renegade Colombian rebels -- and quickly launched a retaliatory military operation in the area where they were snatched.