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Guillermo Cano Isaza
Guillermo Cano Isaza was a Colombian journalist.
The editor of the daily El Espectador, he was murdered in front of the paper's offices by two hitmen linked to Colombia's drug cartels. It was assumed that the attack was in reprisal for a campaign he had launched in the paper to denounce the influence of drug traffickers in the country's politics. The same building was destroyed in a bomb attack three years later.
In an October 1995 ruling, four individuals were found guilty of conspiring to commit his murder and sentenced to prison terms of 16 years, 8 months. However, on ...
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