(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 March 2007, unidentified individuals fired three shots at the home of “Reporte” newspaper columnist José Palmar, a priest. The shots hit the front wall of the home, located in the Sierra Maestra neighbourhood in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia, which is located in the country’s west. Palmar does not discard […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 15 March 2007, unidentified individuals fired three shots at the home of “Reporte” newspaper columnist José Palmar, a priest. The shots hit the front wall of the home, located in the Sierra Maestra neighbourhood in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia, which is located in the country’s west.
Palmar does not discard the possibility that the threat is related to his allegations about administrative irregularities by the managers of the state petroleum company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), which he has been publishing since 2006. The columnist also filed a complaint about the irregularities with a prosecutor’s office (Fiscalía 24 de Salvaguarda) in Caracas and a prosecutor’s office in Maracaibo (Fiscalía 25).
The municipal and state police, as well as agents from the Intelligence and Prevention Services Headquarters (Dirección de los Servicios de Inteligencia y Prevención, DISIP) will be carrying out preliminary investigations on the attack.
