(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 September 2006, a car belonging to the state-owned radio station Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV) was fired on by three individuals driving a van and a motorbike, as it cruised along a Caracas avenue. The two passengers of the radio station vehicle, both of them administrative employees, were not injured. The […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 24 September 2006, a car belonging to the state-owned radio station Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV) was fired on by three individuals driving a van and a motorbike, as it cruised along a Caracas avenue. The two passengers of the radio station vehicle, both of them administrative employees, were not injured.
The motives for the attack are unknown. The possibility that it may have been related to the radio station’s work cannot be ruled out, however, as the car had a sign that identified it as RNV’s.
RNV Director Helena Salcedo told a state newspaper that this was not the first time there had been an attack of this nature, but she did not elaborate on the previous incidents. RNV’s news coverage is sympathetic to President Hugh Chávez’s government.
Salcedo and Communications and Information Minister William Lara condemned the incident and filed a complaint about it before the Prosecutor General’s Office (Fiscalía General).
