Ecuador: Journalist Tomás Beltrán shot dead
The editor of local outlet Calcetines had reported threats. The Inter American Press Association has called for an investigation into whether the killing was linked to his work.
Tomás Alfonso Beltrán Conforme was shot near his home in Calceta, in Ecuador’s Manabí province, on the evening of 8 November. He ran Calcetines, a local news website. In its 9 November statement, the Inter American Press Association said the attackers had not been identified and the motive had not been established.
Beltrán had been in the prosecutor’s victim and witness protection programme since May 2025, the association said. In April 2026, Fundamedios published a warning from a journalists’ protection coalition about death threats against him. The association urged investigators to examine both a possible link to his reporting and the effectiveness of the protection measures.
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