David Niño de Guzmán

Afterward, Guzmán was not seen for two days until authorities were notified of a discovery of a body in a ravine near the Orkojahuira River by Avenida Zavaleta (René Zavaleta Avenue) and near Miraflores neighborhood. His body was identified at the morgue by his family. An autopsy showed Guzmán died on 19 April 2011 due to stomach damage caused by the detonation of a bomb.

A march was held in honour of David Niño de Guzmán on 27 April 2011. Demonstrators urged authorities to hold a full investigation into his death and for life insurance for media workers. Additionally, the government was looking into low salaries, the long working days of journalists, arbitrary layoffs, medical insurance, and mistreatment of media workers by their employers.

David Niño de Guzmán had spent 16 years in journalism. He had previously worked as a journalist for the newspapers La Razón, El Diario, Última Hora, and the widely circulated Presencia. He also once worked in television for Cadena A-Canal 36. He assumed the position of chief editor in March 2010 after working for Fides News Agency (ANF) for 4 years.

In 2011, David Niño de Guzmán's death was the only instance of a fatality associated with journalism in Bolivia. Long after his case was closed, journalists continued to raise his name as a victim of violence against journalists in Bolivia. While the Committee to Protect Journalists still have not confirmed Guzmán as a work-related death, it has confirmed two other Bolivian journalists, Carlos Quispe Quispe of Radio Municipal killed 29 March 2008 in Pucarani and Juan Carlos Encinas, a freelance journalist, killed 29 July 2001 in Catavi.

David Niño de Guzmán (30 December 1969 – 19 April 2011), a Bolivian journalist and editor, was chief editor for Fides News Agency (ANF) when he disappeared and was found dead two days later in the periphery of La Paz, Bolivia. While the cause of his death was an explosive device, the agency behind his death is suspicious and still disputed.

David Niño de Guzmán was born on 30 December 1969 in Uncía, Potosí, Bolivia. He studied communications at the University of San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca. He was a resident of La Paz, Bolivia. He married Sandra Flores. The couple had two children and were separated at the time of his death.