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Events on Thursday 26 April 1990 1
1990Colombian presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro assassinatedFormer guerrilla leader shot aboard flightCarlos Pizarro, presidential candidate for the demobilized M-19 guerrilla movement, was shot and killed aboard a domestic flight on 26 April 1990. He was the third Colombian presidential candidate assassinated during that election cycle. The killings underscored the violence surrounding Colombia's drug wars.