Gangeme, 56, editor and publisher of the weekly magazine El Informador Chubutense,
was shot and killed by a gunman in the town of Trelew, Chubut Province.
At 1:28 a.m., as Gangeme was parking his Chevrolet in front of his
apartment, a man shot him point-blank in the head with a .38-caliber
pistol. A police officer who heard the shot arrived within a few
minutes. Witnesses saw a man fleeing the scene on foot. Gangeme’s
wallet, which contained checks and a large sum of money, was not taken,
making robbery an unlikely motive.
Gangeme founded El Informador Chubutense
in 1992. Since then, the weekly has become well known for denouncing
corruption and revealing intimate details of the lives of local
authorities and businesspeople. According to local press reports,
Gangeme’s hard-hitting journalism earned him many enemies.