Colombia says 2 more journalists missing
BOGOTA- Two more journalists have gone missing in a lawless region in Colombia where security forces are already carrying out a massive search for a prominent Spanish journalist, President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday.
Santos said two journalists from the right-leaning network RCN are unaccounted for and now also being sought. The two were part of a group of journalists that had traveled to the volatile Catatumbo region to cover the hunt for Salud Hernandez-Mora, a longtime correspondent for Spain's El Mundo newspaper whose weekly column in Bogota daily El Tiempo is one of the most read in Colombia.
Authorities were refusing to call Hernandez-Mora's disappearance a kidnapping, though speculation heightened that she could have been taken hostage by the National Liberation Army, or ELN, one of several illegal armed groups and drug traffickers dominant in the mountainous area bordering Venezuela.
