Susy Aponte Polo, a journalist and candidate for regional governor in Peru's Áncash region, was shot dead at a campaign event in a Caraz market just days after publicly warning that an attack had been ordered against her and reporting death threats linked to her work.
The killing came 15 days before Peru's regional and municipal elections on 4 October. Aponte Polo had publicly said she was receiving death threats that she believed were linked to her political and journalistic work. Authorities have not established whether those allegations or the threats she reported were connected to her killing.
