Ricardo Gangeme

The three suspects, Osvaldo Daniel Viti, Gustavo Fabian Smith, and Alejandro Zabala, were tried in court for the murder of Gangeme, but they were all acquitted in 2002 by the Criminal Court of Northwest Chubut. During the trial it was discovered that the gun and fingerprints did not match the suspects'. The case has become an unsolved murder.

Gangeme was killed around 1:28 a.m. outside of his apartment building in Trelew on May 13, 1999. He was found inside his car with a gunshot wound to the head and slumped over the steering wheel of his parked Chevrolet outside his downtown apartment, which was located in the center of Trelew and 100 meters from the local police station. The Smith & Wesson .38 calibre handgun round entered close to his left eye and did not exit which was the cause of the journalist's death. His corpse was found around 8:00 a.m. the next morning. Police did not consider it a robbery as he was found with $1,500 in his pocket. A few days before the incident, Gangeme had reported to the police he was receiving threats for his recent publication about local corruption. Gangeme held a reputation for investigating corruption in business and government circles.

The Argentine Supreme Court decided to add "actual malice" to their neutral reporting standards. This means that plaintiffs must prove the published information is false and that the journalist knew it was false at the time of publication. In 1986 it was decided that plaintiffs may not sue a journalist for accurately producing information about a public figure. This provides significant protection to Argentine journalist. It play a major role in rival against journalist. In 1997, the President at the time, Carlos Menem said that citizen's had a right to give the press a beating. Two years after this statement, Gangeme was shot dead.

In 1957, at the age of 14, Gangeme started working at the Buenos Aires weekly magazine Que. He spent 16 years with the tabloid Crónica. Between the years 1976 and 1992, he directed Radio Argentina. In 1992, Gangeme moved to Trelew where he was the editor for the daily La Jornada until 1998. Toward the end of that year, Gangeme founded the weekly El Informador Chubutense in Trelew. This newspaper was known for reveling intimate details about local authorities and businessmen in attempt to uncover the corruption.

Ricardo Gangeme (August 24, 1943 – May 13, 1999), was an Argentine journalist, editor and founder of the newspaper El Informador Chubutense in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who was known for writing articles exposing corruption of political leaders and entrepreneurs until his killing in Trelew, Chubut Province, Argentina.