
Bogota (TSN) – Yet four more social leaders were murdered in Colombia in just 24 hours, amid a security crisis for activists and community leaders that risk their lives for a better future for their country and the region.

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According to teleSUR’s correspondent in Colombia, Manuel Jimenez, Carlos Jimmy Prado Gallardo was a human rights activist and national delegate for the Afro-Colombian, Raizal, Black and Palenquero Communities in their popular consults in Nariño. He was killed in the Olaya Herrera-Satinga municipality on Saturday’s night.
“The last time we saw him alive was during the session of the prior popular consult with the government on June 1. He left for his territories at 4 a.m. and now we’re denouncing his murder,” said the Commission on Human Rights and Guarantees of the Agrarian, Farmer, Ethnic and Popular Summit in a press release Saturday.
Libardo Asprilla, director of the Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal and Palenque Communities Affairs, condemned the murder of Prado Gallardo and demanded “urgent action from the attorney, prosecutors, and the police to shed light on the terrible events that the Afro-Colombian people are again mourning.”