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(CNN Spanish) - A social communicator, identified as Buenaventura Calderón, 72, was killed after receiving several bullet impacts this Thursday minutes before arriving at his home in the municipality of Puerto Lempira, in the department of Gracias a God, Atlantic zone of Honduras, according to police.
Melvin Alvarenga, regional commander of the preventive police in Gracias a Dios, indicated that two subjects aboard a motorcycle and with their faces covered fired at the vehicle that Calderón was driving when he tried to park in front of his house, taking his life almost immediately .
According to the police, in fact the communicator's wife, María Calderón, 43, who accompanied him in the vehicle, also died from several bullet impacts.
Buenaventura Calderón was one of the coordinators of the Ecos de la Mosquitia news program, on the Kupia Kumi Catholic Radio, in Puerto Lempira. According to his companions, who lamented the murder, Calderón dealt with issues related to drug trafficking in the area, corruption and was a defender of the human and territorial rights of the Misquito peoples of that region.
According to the police authorities, the causes of the murder of the communicator, who was also a merchant, and his wife are under investigation to arrest the material and intellectual responsible for this double crime.
According to CNN, the National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, Roberto Herrera Cáceres, 81 journalists and media workers have been murdered in the Central American country since 2001 to date. Only so far this year, he added, there are already four journalists killed.
Honduras, according to several international human rights organizations, is one
of the countries of the world where it is dangerous to practice the profession of journalism.
