Journalist Killed in El Salvador
The SPJ International Committee condemns the violence that took the life of journalist and documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda in El Salvador Sept. 2. He was covering gang violence in El Salvador. He expressed concerns about the increasing incidence of violence in an interview with the LA Times this week. A day after he was interviewed, he was shot and killed. Poveda had worked in El Salvador since the 1980s. He was a victim of the same violence he was documenting. An arrest has been made. We must remember him.