Journalists Killed in 1992 - Motive Confirmed: Manuel de Dios Unanue
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Date:
January 1993
El Diario/La Prensa
March 11, 1992, in New York City, USA
Cuban-American de Dios, the outspoken former editor of El Diario/La Prensa and the founder of weekly magazine Cambio XXI and monthly magazine Crimen (Crime), was shot in the head in a New York City restaurant. Police believe that more than a dozen drug traffickers and businessmen plotted to murder de Dios in retaliation for hard-hitting stories he had written about their drug and money laundering operations. Daily death threats were telephoned into the offices of El Diario/La Prensa after the journalist's murder.
Medium: | |
Job: | Editor |
Beats Covered: | Crime |
Gender: | Male |
Local or Foreign: | Local |
Freelance: | No |
Type of Death: | Murder |
Suspected Source of Fire: | Criminal Group |
Impunity: | Partial |
Taken Captive: | No |
Tortured: | No |
Threatened: | No |
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