Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – At midday (local time) on 30 May 2003, an unidentified assailant shot at the vehicle of journalist Gustavo Azócar. The vehicle was parked in front of the journalist’s residence in San Cristóbal city, in the southwestern state of Táchira. The bullet passed through the front windshield and embedded itself in the dashboard. Azócar […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On the morning of 21 May 2003, officials seized a cassette from a Televen news crew. The television station crew was reporting on a robbery carried out at dawn that same day in the offices of the Foreign Relations Ministry. Reporter Johan Merchán was standing outside the building known as the Casa Amarilla […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 13 May 2003, journalist Roberto Giusti filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the attack he suffered on 2 May and death threats he has been receiving since that day. On 2 May, the journalist was confronted by a group of individuals when he arrived at the Radio Caracas Radio […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 May 2003, a group of protesters physically assaulted Armando Castro Méndez, a photojournalist for the Trujillo-based newspaper “La Industria”. Castro was on the Panamericana Norte highway, in La Libertad region, covering the first day of a national truck and bus drivers’ strike. More than 10 protesters prevented the journalist from reporting […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 1 May 2003, Juan Carlos Amado, a camera operator for the non-governmental research organisation COTRAIN (Comunidad de Trabajos de Investigación), was physically assaulted while filming a demonstration. Amado told IPYS that he was in Plaza O’Leary, in downtown Caracas, filming a march organised by the Venezuelan Workers Confederation (Confederación de Trabajadores de […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 May 2003, the Morona Santiago provincial branch of the Ecuadorian Radio Broadcasting Association (Asociación Ecuatoriana de Radiodifusión, AER) protested the recent threats against several journalists. Approximately 12 radio stations in the province are AER members. Wilson Cabrera, the director and owner of Radio Canela FM, was threatened for reporting on alleged […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – The Supreme Court (Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, TSJ) has dismissed a case filed against the private television stations Radio Caracas Televisión, Venevisión, Televen, Globovisión, CMT, Meridiano and Puma TV. The stations had been accused of interfering with the transmission of a nation-wide radio and television broadcast by President Hugo Chávez. On 11 April […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 2 May 2003, journalist Roberto Giusti was confronted by a group of individuals when he arrived at the Radio Caracas Radio studio. Giusti hosts the station’s “Golpe a golpe” programme. The incident occurred at approximately 7:30 a.m. (local time). A group of about 10 people was at the building entrance, carrying placards […]