(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 30 July 2005, around one hundred people congregated in front of the offices of the newspaper “Notitarde”, in Valencia, Carabobo State, shouting protest slogans and threatening to kill its reporters. The protesters, who said they were from La Guacamaya shanty town, scratched at the walls and warned that any […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On the evening of 30 July 2005, around one hundred people congregated in front of the offices of the newspaper “Notitarde”, in Valencia, Carabobo State, shouting protest slogans and threatening to kill its reporters.
The protesters, who said they were from La Guacamaya shanty town, scratched at the walls and warned that any journalist who approached their neighbourhood would be killed. Although they did not specify the motives for their protest, their action may be related to recent media coverage of altercations among area residents over housing assigned through a programme promoted by Carabobo State Governor Luis Felipe Acosta Carles.
The group of protesters left after one of the newspaper’s photographers tried to take their photo. They threatened to go to the region’s other newspapers to “make their protests very clear”. Despite the threat, no violence against other media outlets was reported during the night.
