Foundation for Press Freedom – FLIP

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 10 December 2004, at 11:15 a.m. (local time), a news crew for the regional “Llano 7 Días” newspaper, owned by the El Tiempo publishing house, was held up by unidentified individuals and prevented from carrying out its work. The assailants robbed journalist Jhon Alfonso Moreno Correa, photojournalist Hernando Herrera Estrada and driver […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 1 December 2004, Luis Arley Ortiz Orozco, alias “Pereque”, was captured by Technical Investigations Unit officers from the Sogamoso Municipality Public Prosecutor’s Office, located in Boyacá department. Ortiz Orozco was wanted in connection with the murder of “La Patria” newspaper deputy editor Orlando Sierra. The arrest could shed light on those behind […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque has been forced to seek exile outside of Colombia as a result of repeated threats and the failure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office to sufficiently advance the investigation into the threats to the degree warranted by the seriousness of the case. On 17 November 2004, at 7:52 p.m. (local […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – Donald Montaño, a cameraman for Canal Caracol television station in Valledupar, northwestern Colombia, has been held in a restroom in the city’s La Nevada Hospital since the morning of 4 November 2004. Montaño was detained by demonstrators who took over the hospital on 1 November, protesting their eviction from their homes. Another cameraman, […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – In separate incidents on 31 October and 1 November 2004, several journalists from the “Vanguardia Liberal” and “El Pilón” newspapers, based in the city of Valledupar, northwestern Colombia, were prevented from carrying out their work. In one of the incidents, the journalists were prevented from photographing the scene of a bus accident. In […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 14 October 2004, journalist Silvio Sierra Sierra, host of an opinion programme broadcast on Radio Super station and a correspondent for the Cali-based newspaper “El País”, was informed of a plan to attack him in the city of Popayán, southwestern Colombia. On the morning of 14 October, the National Police received an […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – On 16 October 2004, the daily “El Tiempo” reported on the assassination of Jaime Alberto Madero Muñoz, a newspaper vendor in the city of Santa Marta, on Colombia’s northern coast. Madero’s murder was mentioned in a special report on the state of journalism on the Caribbean coast. Madero was reportedly murdered by a […]

(FLIP/IFEX) – Journalists Ramón B. Jimeno, Juan Manuel López and Alejo Vargas have decided to cancel the “Tercera Dimensión” programme, which has been broadcast on the Bogotá-based Radio Santafé station for the last seven years. The journalists were reacting to the station management’s request that they change the content of the information presented on the […]