Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 20 May 2004, several television correspondents’ videotapes were confiscated at the Tingo María airport, in the Huánuco region of eastern Peru. The incident took place when the journalists were searched before boarding a plane owned by the National Police. The correspondents were forced to travel by air because protesting coca growers had […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On the afternoon of 23 May 2004, a group of journalists were attacked by a mob. The incident occurred in the Ilave district, Puno region, southeastern Peru. The journalists were invited to the region to attend a press conference. However, violence erupted after police took down a barricade that local residents had set […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 May 2004, an unidentified individual threw two tear gas canisters during the transmission of the “Primera Página” programme, broadcast on the Globovisión television station. The programme was being transmitted live from the Alberto Ravell neighbourhood, in El Valle, southern Caracas. Carlos Acosta, a journalist and the programme’s producer, told IPYS that […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 May 2004, military intelligence service (Dirección de la Inteligencia Militar, DIM) officers issued death threats against and assaulted an “El Universal” newspaper news team comprised of photojournalist Jorge Santos, reporter Felix Carmona and driver Andrés Pérez Cova. The incident took place in the Oripoto area of El Hatillo municipality, southeast of […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 10 May 2004, Darvin Romero Montiel, a reporter for the state television station Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), was stopped by police as he was driving down a street in the La Alameda area of Baruta municipality, in the eastern part of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. Romero told IPYS that he showed the police […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 May 2004, the Lima-based newspaper “El Comercio” reported that businessman Fernando Zevallos Gonzáles has launched another civil defamation complaint against the newspaper, demanding US$100 million in compensation. Zevallos is facing drug trafficking charges and his trial is scheduled to resume on 1 June in Lima’s Superior Court. According to information published […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 5 May 2004, Congress asked for an apology from “Perú 21” newspaper after the newspaper described the government body as “mediocre and corrupt” for having advanced a motion to censor Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi. During the debate over the motion to censor Rospigliosi, Member of Congress Alfredo Gonzáles proposed that, before deciding […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – David Mejía Huamán, director of the biweekly “La Selva”, in the city of Puerto Maldonado, in the country’s southeastern region of Madre de Dios, has asked the local prefect to ensure his safety. The journalist was threatened by the head of the Madre de Dios regional government, Rafael Edwin Ríos López, on 20 […]