Brazilian journalist murdered at home in Paraguay
February 14, 2020
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the local authorities to shed all possible light on Brazilian journalist Léo Veras’s murder in his home in Pedro Juan Caballero, a Paraguayan city on the border with the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, on the night of 12 February
Veras, 52, who edited the local "Porã News" website, was dining with his family when two masked gunmen burst in and shot him 12 times. He died of his injuries after being rushed to a nearby hospital.
He specialized in covering local corruption, organized crime and cross-border drug trafficking, of which there is a vast amount in Pedro Juan Caballero and Ponta Porã, its sister city on the Brazilian side of the border.
He had been threatened many times since 2013 because of the subjects he covered and, in an interview for TV Record broadcast on 28 January, he said he had recently received new death threats in connection with his coverage of criminal gang activity in the border region.
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