Annotations for Organizations: Brown-richard

He was killed because he had the courage to speak out because he exercised his first amendment rights as a journalist.

For years, De Dios worked to investigate and expose international reports of drugs and crime, first as editor of New York's largest Spanish language newspaper El Diario, and later as the publisher of two crime magazines. In 1991, he was shot point-blank while sitting in his favorite restaurant in Queens. Richard Brown is the district attorney from Queens who worked with federal agents on the case.

The same tactics repeatedly used by Colombian cocaine traffickers in South America to silence their critics, were used here. He was killed because he had the courage to speak out. Because he exercised his first amendment rights as a journalist.