Sixth teacher assassinated this year in Colombia | World War 4 Report

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Sixth teacher assassinated this year in Colombia | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 15, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez, a Colombian-French photographer who works closely with indigenous groups in Cauca and elsewhere around the country, was approached by an unkown man near his home in Bogotá and given an envelope that contained a death threat. The letter, signed by the Capital Bloc of the Aguilas Negras paramilitary group, accused Gutiérrez and his indigenous friends of collaborating with the FARC. It named both the CRIC and allied National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), reading: "[W]e remind the snitch son of a bitch Juan Pablo Gutiérrez and his ONIC and CRIC comrades manipulating the country's indigenous peoples that Colombia must be respected! Those who dishonor the brave national state must be eliminated. It does not matter if the bastard son of a bitch is protected. In Colombia or elsewhere he has little time left." (Amnesty International, Aug. 21)