Diógenes Quintero Dies With 14 Others in Colombia Plane Crash

Colombian authorities launched an investigation after a Beechcraft 1900 aircraft crashed in the Catatumbo region on Wednesday, killing all fifteen people on board including Diógenes Quintero.The flight, operated by Searca for the state-owned airline Satena, disappeared from radar twelve minutes after departing from Cúcuta for Ocaña before wreckage was located in La Playa de Belén near the Venezuelan border.Other victims include congressional candidate Carlos Salcedo and former councilman Juan Davíd Pacheco Mejía, while Transport Minister Maria Fernanda Rojas confirmed that rescue teams are assessing the mountainous site.