Jaime Garzón (1960-1999)

Jaime Garzón was a humorist whose parodies of Colombian society and culture received  wide popular acclaim. He was murdered on August 13, 1999. Carlos Castaño Gil, the head of the paramilitary group AUC, was subsequently convicted in absentia for having ordered Garzón’s murder. In the parlance of the Colombian justice system, Castaño was the autor intelectual. The autores materiales remain at large.