Gunman Kills Aide of Colombia Leader
A man on a motorcycle shot to death an adviser to President Virgilio Barco Vargas as he sat in his car at a stoplight in Medellin, police said Saturday.
The adviser, Roberto Lozano Suarez, was shot three times Friday night, national police headquarters said. Two other men in Lozano’s car were not hurt, the police said.
Lozano, 42, was a land reform adviser to Barco for the banana growing region of Uraba, in northwest Colombia.
The Uraba area has been torn by violence in the last year as labor unions try to organize banana plantation workers. Right-wing death squads have killed at least six union organizers, and there has been heavy fighting between leftist guerrillas and the army in the region.
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