Turbay, Diana

Diana Turbay was born March 9, 1950 in Bogota, worked as a journalist on Colombian television. Her father was Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala , President of the Republic of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 ^[1] . On August 30, 1990, an unknown man contacted Diana Turbay by telephone and promised to arrange an interview with Manuel Peres Martinez (a Spanish priest , an internationalist revolutionary , and leader of the National Liberation Army ). Later, a police investigation found that the man was a member of the Medellin cocaine cartel and was hired by Pablo Escobar . Pablo Escobar hoped that with the help of the abducted daughter of the ex-president, he would be able to put pressure on Colombian lawmakers and they would cancel the agreement on the extradition of criminals to the United States of America . Diana Turbay was abducted together with her cameraman Richard Besser and was detained in an apartment in the suburbs of Medellin ^[2] . On January 25, 1991, during a rescue operation initiated by the Colombian police, Diana Turbay died from gunshot wounds (a police officer accidentally shot her). The cause of death was a bullet fired in the back, which partially destroyed her liver and left kidney ^[3] .

The life path of Diana Turbay was portrayed in the novel by the writer Gabriel Marquez " Report of the abduction " and shown in the television series " Narco " ^{[3] [4]} .