You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Colombia: Environmental Leader Assassinated Amid Spate of Activist Murders

HeadlineOct 12, 2018

In Colombia, human rights groups are denouncing the assassination of yet another human rights activist: Otto Valenzuela, one of the leaders of an environmental community organization in the Colombian Amazon. The activist was found shot to death on October 8. Human rights groups say over 100 Colombian activists have been murdered so far this year.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top