(IPYS/IFEX) – On 26 July 2006, various members of the ruling Fatherland for Everyone (Patria Para Todos, PPT) party, together with employees of the municipality of Torres, in the western state of Lara, staged a demonstration in front of the offices of the daily newspaper “El Caroreño” to protest the editorial line of the newspaper, […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 26 July 2006, various members of the ruling Fatherland for Everyone (Patria Para Todos, PPT) party, together with employees of the municipality of Torres, in the western state of Lara, staged a demonstration in front of the offices of the daily newspaper “El Caroreño” to protest the editorial line of the newspaper, which is critical of the government. The protestors threatened to burn down the building housing the newspaper’s printing press, and they burned various copies of the newspaper.
Some protestors where photographed and identified, among them Torres municipal councillors and PPT party members, including Norkis Querales and Edwin Juárez and Jorge Martínez, as well as prosecutor Carlos Luis Hernández and other officials of the mayoralty of Torres.
The newspaper plans to lodge a complaint over the threats with the Public Prosecutor’s office.
