Violence attributed to “emerging” paramilitary groups escalated in the northwestern department of Córdoba. Seven people, among them three teenagers, were massacred in a bar in Puerto Libertador http://elespectador.com/noticias/judicial/articulo194497-masacre-cordoba  Radio journalist Clodomiro Castillo, a critic of politicians tied to paramilitary groups, was gunned down on the front porch of his house in Montería. http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2010/03/113004.php