{"id":170544,"date":"2018-07-11T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=170544"},"modified":"2018-07-11T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T03:22:40","slug":"colombia-3-judicial-officials-slain-in-holdout-rebel-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/11\/colombia-3-judicial-officials-slain-in-holdout-rebel-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia: 3 judicial officials slain in holdout rebel ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170561\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1025270992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170561\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1025270992.jpg\" alt=\"The same group has been behind a wave of drug-related violence, including the March kidnapping of three Ecuadorean newspaper workers who were later found slain. (Photo: Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1025270992.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1025270992-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1025270992-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The same group has been behind a wave of drug-related violence, including the March kidnapping of three Ecuadorean newspaper workers who were later found slain. (Photo: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOGOTA \u2013 Colombian authorities say three judicial investigators have been killed in an ambush of their vehicle by a dissident rebel group along the country&#8217;s southern border with Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Wednesday that two of the men were incinerated to death when their car was torched by holdout guerrillas from the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>The same group has been behind a wave of drug-related violence, including the March kidnapping of three Ecuadorean newspaper workers who were later found slain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear what the three judicial workers were investigating. But they were travelling through a municipality that is home to Colombia&#8217;s largest harvest of illegal coca crops.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Prosecutor Nestor Martinez said he will honour their memory by redoubling efforts to attack criminal groups in the volatile area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOGOTA \u2013 Colombian authorities say three judicial investigators have been killed in an ambush of their vehicle by a dissident &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":170561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[26866,329,53118,1663,2375,34868],"class_list":["post-170544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-bogota","tag-colombia","tag-judicial-investigators","tag-kidnapping","tag-killed","tag-revolutionary-armed-forces-of-colombia","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}