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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tiago Rogero South America correspondent

Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

Two people kneel holding candles while two others hold a banner of the journalist Mateo Perez Rueda's portrait during a nighttime vigil
People hold candles and signs during a vigil in Cali this month for the journalist Mateo Pérez Rueda, who was killed by Farc dissidents. Photograph: Ernesto Guzman Jr./EPA

Mateo Pérez Rueda was one internship away from completing a degree in political science. The 24-year-old also worked as a bicycle delivery rider and sold fruit salads and juice to finance his passion: the Colombian independent digital magazine El Confidente.

On 4 May he travelled to Briceño, in the western province of Antioquia, to report on the long-running conflict between the army, paramilitaries and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

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