José Emeterio Rivas (c. 1957 or '58 – April 6, 2003) was a Colombian radio journalist and host of the talk show "Las Fuerzas Vivas" (Translated: "Live Forces") for Radio Calor Estéreo in Barrancabermeja, Magdalena Medio Antioquia, Colombia. Rivas was murdered along with another man by paramilitary. The case was unique because this journalist's murderers were convicted in the country, which is rare for cases of killed journalists. Personal José Emeterio Rivas lived in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. He was 44 years old and a father of two children. At one point, Rivas ran for senate where he acquired more than 8000 votes. Career Rivas was a political radio journalist for the Radio Calor Estéreo. He hosted a morning public affairs show called "Fuerzas Vivas" (Translated: "Live Forces") with opinions about politics that critics found to be insulting to some Barrancabermeja politicians. On his program, Rivas accused the mayor of corruption and collaboration with members of the right-wing paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known as the AUC. He had called the mayor a "plunderer". Death On April 5, 2003, a day before his death, José Emeterio Rivas publicly accused the town's mayor Julio César Ardila Torres and other local politicians of corruption and collaboration with members of the right-wing paramilitary group AUC. It was said that Rivas called Ardila a "plunderer" in the television appearance. The next day Rivas was murdered in Barrancabermeja but detectives found his corpse seven days after his killing in the same spot he had been shot, next to Colombia's Magdalena River. Rivas's body was alongside another body of a man by the name of Paolo César Montesinos, who was a 22-year-old college student majoring in Environmental Engineering at the University Institute of Peace. It is not known why these two bodies were found together. When Riva's body was found, there were four bullet holes in his abdomen, indicating that he probably died almost instantly. Investigation There was an investigation after the bodies were found and it took them about ten years to finalize the case and send the men to prison that were involved. Diego Waldrón, a colleague to Rivas, told Committee to Protect Journalists that Rivas had received repeated death threats. It was after hearing this that the detectives linked some killers to Rivas's murder. The mayor and his three collaborators, Fabio Pajón Lizcano, Abelardo Rueda Tobón, and Juan Pablo Ariza, who were a