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The case continued in 2016, with the arrest of Elkin Bueno
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The mayor and his three collaborators, Fabio Pajón
Lizcano, Abelardo Rueda Tobón, and Juan Pablo Ariza, who were a few of his high-up officials, had hired militia leaders to kill Rivas with the reward for $ 68,000. A militia leader by the name of Bedoya later admitted his participation as a material
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Rivas was a political radio journalist for the Radio Calor Estéreo. He hosted a morning public affairs show called "Fuerzas Vivas" (Translated: "Live Forces") with opinions about politics that critics found to be insulting to some
Barrancabermeja politicians. On his program, Rivas accused the mayor
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On April 5, 2003, a day before his death, José Emeterio Rivas publicly accused the town's mayor Julio César Ardila Torres and other local politicians of corruption and collaboration with members of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC. It was said that Rivas called Ardila a "plunderer" in the
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author in Riva's death. Ardila was sentenced to 28 years and eight months in prison and
Lizcano and Tobón were each sentenced to 26 years and eight months in prison. Along with imprisonment, the mayor was also fined 1,192 million pesos (US $ 531,000).
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murder were effectively prosecuted and punished. We commend the attorney general's office and its human rights unit for taking this crucial step forward in the campaign to end impunity in the murders of journalists around the world."
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