Instituto Prensa y Sociedad

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 3 May 2000, Ismael Horna, a reporter with Frecuencia Latina, formally accused Luis Gálvez, presidential candidate Alejandro Toledo’s bodyguard, of committing assault. According to reports from the newspaper “Referéndum”, the complaint was filed at the police headquarters of Jorge Chávez airport in Lima, where Peru’s possible future leader agreed to talk with […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 May 2000, Uriel Meza Mayhua, a reporter for Radio Sicuani, was attacked by workers from the Provincial Municipality of Canchis, in the province of Cusco. When the altercation occurred, Meza was broadcasting live information pertaining to irregularities in the change in job appointments at the community’s Office of Public Works. He […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – In a report submitted to IPYS, journalist Alberto Pintado Villaverde denounced the attempted bribery of the media in the province of Bagua Grande, district of Amazonas. He reported that the departmental coordinator of Perú 2000, Milecio Vallejos Bravo, attempted to manipulate Radio Galaxia Súper Stereo by offering bribes to its news director, Carlos […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – In the afternoon on 30 April 2000, journalist Ronald Ripa Casafranca received death threats. Ripa Casafranca is a young journalist and news director for Radio Panorama in Andahuaylas, in the southern department of Apurímac. The threats occurred after he transmitted various reports over the telephone about striking farmers in the region, and resulting […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – Journalist Perla Diana Villanueva Pérez, the television station Canal N’s correspondent for Trujillo, in the northern department of La Libertad, was compelled to seek guarantees from the province’s sub-prefect, Sergio Sánchez K., to protect her life and the lives of her family members. In a document which the journalist sent to IPYS, she […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On Thursday 6 April 2000, Hernán Carrion de la Cruz, director of the news programme “Ancash en la noticia” broadcast on Radio Ancash, issued a statement published in the daily “La Industria de Chimbote” denouncing the fact that an unknown individual had attempted to shoot him from a vehicle. The journalist, who states […]

(IPYS/IFEX) – On Tuesday 11 April 2000, “La República” daily reported that the premises of a radio station, a television station and two newspapers were attacked by demonstrators during a protest against the government in Huaraz. The demonstrators, students and construction labourers, exited from the main door of the Ancash Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo National […]

Less than twenty-four hours before the start of the Sunday 9 April 2000 general election, the Fourth Lima Civil Court ordered the precautionary seizure of bank accounts and four properties (two of which house printing presses) belonging to the Editora Correo publishing house, in Piura and Arequipa, Peru. The court order followed a defamation complaint […]