JANUARY 31, 2005 Posted: February 4, 2005 Patricia Poleo, El Nuevo País LEGAL ACTION The Attorney General’s Office announced that Poleo, a columnist and director of the Caracas daily El Nuevo País, would be prosecuted on charges of illegally obtaining and disclosing sealed case documents and violating anticorruption legislation. Poleo was accused of publicizing confidential…
New York, January 28, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that a Colombian photographer is missing and feared abducted. On Saturday, January 22, Hernán Echeverri Arboleda, a photographer with the bimonthly regional newspaper Urabá Hoy (Urabá Today), disappeared on a rural highway in northwestern Colombia. Assailants thought to be members of the Revolutionary Armed…
New York, January 25, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the January 21 attack and death threats against Brazilian journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto, who is based in the city of Belém, in the northern state of Pará. Pinto, the publisher and editor of the small bimonthly Jornal Pessoal, said he was at a restaurant having…
JANUARY 21, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Lúcio Flávio Pinto, Jornal Pessoal ATTACKED Pinto, the publisher and editor of the small bimonthly Jornal Pessoal in the city of Belém, in the northern state of Pará, said he was at a restaurant having lunch with friends on Friday, January 21, when Ronaldo Maiorana, a businessman and…
JANUARY 19, 2005 Posted: March 1, 2005 Julio Jara Ladrón de Guevara, El Comercio LEGAL ACTION Jara, editor and publisher of the daily El Comercio, based in the southern city of Cusco, was convicted of criminal defamation charges brought by a former government official. He received a one-year suspended sentence.
JANUARY 14, 2005 Posted: January 27, 2005 Claude Bernard Serant, Le Nouvelliste Jonel Juste, Le Nouvelliste ATTACKED Serant and Juste, reporters with the Port-au-Prince-based daily Le Nouvelliste, were beaten and robbed while covering an operation by U.N. peacekeepers in a shantytown in Haiti’s capital. The U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti was removing burned vehicles and…
JANUARY 14, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Daniel Ortiz Millán, “En Positivo” ATTACKED, THREATENED Ortiz, a radio host with the Geomar 105.1 FM station in the city of Punta de Mata, in the eastern state of Monagas, was attacked by supporters of the local mayor after he discussed an electoral dispute on the air. He…
JANUARY 11, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Giovanna Rodríguez Castro, Bolivisión David Zagardia Muños, Bolivisión HARASSED, THREATENED Rodríguez and Zagardia, members of a news team from TV channel Bolivisión, were harassed and threatened while covering developments during the first day of 48-hour antigovernment protests in the southeastern city of Santa Cruz.
JANUARY 11, 2005 Updated: September 2, 2005 Julio Hernando Palacios Sánchez, Radio Lemas KILLED—CONFIRMED Two armed motorcyclists shot Palacios, 55, a veteran radio news host, as he drove to work around 5:30 a.m. in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border.