One of Colombia's top publications suspends reporting on drug trafficking and paramilitaries

[Judi Lynn]

"Security situations" forced Voragine magazine to impose self-censorship
by Adriaan Alsema October 10, 2024

One of Colombia’s best online publications, Voragine, said Thursday that it will suspend reporting on paramilitary groups and drug trafficking because of “situations that compromise our security.”

The decision implies the silencing of one of the most renowned investigative journalism websites on some of the most important issues in Colombia.

Due to situations that compromise our security, Voragine hereby informs that we will indefinitely stop publishing investigations related to paramilitarism and drug trafficking.

Voragine

Voragine was founded in 2020 by journalist Jose Guarnizo after he left Semana in protest of the magazine’s questionable ethics.

Since then, the website has become a major source of information because of its investigations into political corruption, drug trafficking and paramilitary organizations.

https://colombiareports.com/one-of-colombias-top-publications-suspends-reporting-on-drug-trafficking-and-paramilitaries/

(Paramilitaries, "death squads", have long been connected in Colombia to its hard-right military, and known to have occasionally combined activity to conduct massacres of small villages, some lasting for days as the military secured the perimeters. They have also been used in political assassinations of figures hated by the hard-right ruling class, and engaging in physically inditimidating voters at voting centers, even going into voting booths with the voters. Have been known to use chain saws to dismember citizens in order to terrorize entire communities into absolute submission. )