R.I.P Christian Poveda

[Guillaume Zuili]

A colleague and friend from my agency was assassinated in Salvador yesterday. Very sad day.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6819865.ece

 

[Zathras]

Very sad indeed. My condolences to his friends and family.

Mike Sullivan

 

[No Digital]

No words.
My condolences to his family and friends.

 

[thebanana]

Hey G, I'm very sorry to hear about your friend.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

My condolences, Guillaume. He had to have had a lot of courage to work on the kinds of topics that he did.

 

[removed account4]

guillaume,
i am sorry for your loss.
he was a very brave man
to put himself in the situations
he did, so we could have a chance to
see the truth.
john

 

[zinzin]

Indeed a great loss, sad to hear about it.
It was weird as this morning I was reading an article about him on the latest issue of Polka Magazine when I saw the news of his death coming up on my screen

 

[arigram]

Indeed.
(that's an M8 in case you're wondering)

 

[Mike Wilde]

Sorry to hear this. I read about him in the weekend Globe and Mail. Seems he was shooting in a bit of a high risk community. I would put it one notch down from an actual live bullets flying war photographer's environment.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Coverage on NPR's "Tell Me More" today--

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112708525

The current theory of the motive, interestingly, is not that the gangs objected to a journalist looking too closely at their criminal activity, but that the gangs resented the fact that Poveda was profiting from his reporting on them, and the gangs weren't getting a cut. Ironically, his film was selling widely in bootleg copies in El Salvador, so whoever is involved in bootleg DVDs (one would assume the gangs) would have been making more from the film than Poveda.

 

[Guillaume Zuili]

I'm in Paris now. Inside news from the agency tend to lead to a manipulation from the police. We will never know.