Newspaper columnist slain in Venezuela

[Bacchus39]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110518/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_journalist_slain

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan prosecutors say a newspaper columnist who was also an opposition political activist has been shot to death.

The Attorney General's Office says Wilfred Ivan Ojeda's body was found Tuesday in a vacant lot in the town of La Victoria, and that he was shot in the head.

The 56-year-old was a local political activist for the opposition party Democratic Action and also a columnist for the small daily El Clarin in the rural town southwest of Caracas.

El Clarin reported that Ojeda's body was discovered gagged and hooded and that his hands were bound

[naaman fletcher]

1. While Colombia improves under Santos

Venezuela is going the other direction. I wonder why this murder of a journalist is receiving less press than usual.

[joshcryer]

3. Just a regular old criminal activity, no politics involved whatsoever.

[joshcryer]

2. Political murder.