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El Salvador Journalist Killed

AP News 74 days ago

A worker carries a banner with an image of the French journalist Christian Poveda prior to an event honoring him in San Salvador, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. Poveda, 52, who recently finished a documentary film on gang life in El Salvador, was ...

Suspect released in probe of French filmmaker's death

AFP Global Edition 79 days ago

Salvadoran police have released a member of the feared Mara 18 gang arrested in connection with the killing of a Franco-Spanish journalist whose film on gangs was to debut this month. "We have not found anything linking (the suspect) to the murder ...

French filmmaker who exposed Salvador gangs slain

AFP Global Edition 79 days ago

Salvadoran police arrested a man suspected of involvement in the murder a day earlier of a high-profile Franco-Spanish journalist who had been investigating violent drug gangs. Christian Poveda, 54, was found dead near his vehicle on a road north of the capital ...

French filmmaker who exposed Salvador gang life slain

AFP Global Edition 80 days ago

A Franco-Spanish journalist has been assassinated in El Salvador just weeks before the release of his latest documentary on violent gangs that run drug and extortion rackets in the country. Christian Poveda, 54, was found shot to death Wednesday near his vehicle ...

French filmmaker Poveda killed in El Salvador

Reuters US Online Report World News 81 days ago

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Suspected Salvadorean gang members killed French filmmaker Christian Poveda, whose 2008 film "La Vida Loca" crudely depicts the hopeless lives of members of the infamous Mara 18 street gang, local police said on Wednesday. Poveda, 53, was shot ...

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