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Andean Group - April 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)

POLITICS & JUSTICE: Magistrate's murder underlines prevalent dangers

She was shot down in broad daylight in the centre of Saravena, the third most important municipality in the north-eastern border department of Arauca. Her executioner wore no mask; he approached her on foot, shot her several times at close range and left the scene as calmly as he had arrived. Gloria Constanza Gaona, who had worked as a criminal judge in the Saravena district court for three years, lay dead. Colombia was shocked.

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