A news that shocked the entire Hispanic American community: the popular Argentine composer and singer Facundo Cabral 74 years old was murdered This Saturday morning in Guatemala, when the vehicle in which he was traveling to the airport was shot at.
For now, the reasons could not be clarified. In the shooting, the singer-songwriter's representative was also injured. «Cabral died on the spot, I found out about 12 or 15 minutes after the crime, almost immediately, we are still waiting for the forensic data«, Said the president of the Central American country, Alvaro Colom, to a radio station in Buenos Aires.
The Argentine consul in Guatemala, Enrique Vaca Narvaja, said that «We do not know if the attack is against the businessman (Henry Fariña) or Facundo ... the van in which he was traveling was a white Land Rover belonging to a Nicaraguan businessman, and behind was another custody van«.
Let us remember that Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the region and suffers from a high murder rate, with the siege of gangs known as "maras" and a strong presence of Mexican drug cartels, which use their territory to transport cocaine towards the United States. RIP.