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'My Editor Was Killed by Pablo Escobar'
Journalist Maria Duzan reported from the frontlines of Colombia’s drug wars.
Colombian investigative journalist Maria Duzan fought drug cartels with her pen. When she worked as a journalist in Bogota, she had bodyguards 24/7 and was taught to fire a gun. Maria kept reporting even after her editor was killed by Pablo Escobar’s hitmen and her newsroom was bombed by paramilitary groups.
Image: Maria Duzan
Credit: Semana Magazine
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