Newspaper columnist slain in Venezuela
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Venezuelan prosecutors say a newspaper columnist who was also an opposition political activist has been shot to death.
The Attorney General's Office says Wilfred Ivan Ojeda's body was found Tuesday in a vacant lot in the town of La Victoria, and that he was shot in the head.
The 56-year-old was a local political activist for the opposition party Democratic Action and also a columnist for the small daily El Clarin in the rural town southwest of Caracas.
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El Clarin reported that Ojeda's body was discovered gagged and hooded and that his hands were bound.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Attorney General's Office said authorities were investigating but didn't offer any theory as to the motive in the killing.
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