[4] Pablo Medina Velázquez had been reporting on the drug trade happening in Paraguay when he was killed during a trip back to Asunción from Curuguaty.

[3] Since Medina had been receiving death threats due to his involvement into investigating drug trafficking, he had been assigned police protection.

[11] The Secretary General of SPP, Santiago Ortíz, has come out and said that Paraguayan society is living in a state of narco-politics that will eventually destroy the social base of Paraguay.

Other journalists who were investigating the country's drug trade as well as judicial corruption, Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz and Edgar Pantaleon Fernandez Fleitas, respectively, were killed in Paraguay that same year.

She says that it is important that the people who executed this attack be brought to justice not only because of criminality but to possibly deter future killings against journalists.

He issued a statement shortly afterward citing the attack as threatening the peace of Paraguay as well as a violation of human rights and freedom of expression.