(IPYS/IFEX) – On 30 September 2006, a team of reporters working for news channel Globovisión was assaulted, allegedly by supporters of President Hugo Chávez, during the march of presidential candidate for the opposition, Manuel Rosales, in the state of Trujillo, eastern Venezuela. According to reporter Delvalle Canelón, she and her colleagues were covering Rosales’s campaign […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 30 September 2006, a team of reporters working for news channel Globovisión was assaulted, allegedly by supporters of President Hugo Chávez, during the march of presidential candidate for the opposition, Manuel Rosales, in the state of Trujillo, eastern Venezuela.
According to reporter Delvalle Canelón, she and her colleagues were covering Rosales’s campaign when they were surrounded by the assailants. Their cameraman was beaten with a blunt object, threatened with a broken bottle and forced to surrender his videotape. The mobile unit and other equipment belonging to the station were also damaged.
On 19 September, reporter Paulimar Rodríguez of the newspaper “El Nacional” was also assaulted during a Rosales march, allegedly by Chávez supporters (see IFEX alert of 22 September 2006).
There have been confrontations between supporters of Rosales and of Chávez during the last few Rosales marches. The elections will take place in December.
