Articles by Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
Military personnel briefly detain Globovisión journalist Carmen Elisa Pecorelli and cameraman Carlos Luis Caravallo; vice-minister prevents journalist Mariana Gómez from videotaping protest
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 March 2009, Globovisión television station journalist Carmen Elisa Pecorelli and cameraman Carlos Luis Caravallo were detained by a dozen members of the armed forces when they were filming outside the Los Tamarindos country estate, in the state of Aragua, central Venezuela. The Los Tamarindos estate was seized by officials from the […]
Editor Emilio Palacio threatened after criticising president’s radio programme; camera operator José Vallejo assaulted by protesting taxi drivers
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 13 March 2009, Emilio Palacio, editor of the op-ed section of “El Universo” newspaper, received an e-mail in which he and his family are insulted and threatened. The message referred to one of his articles, published on 1 March 2009, in which he criticised President Rafael Correa’s radio programme. According to Palacio, […]
Independent media outlets barred from covering opening of highway
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 17 March 2009, approximately thirty journalists from the Loreto and San Martín regions in northeastern Peru were prevented from covering the opening by Peruvian President Alan García Pérez of a highway that joins the two regions. The journalists told IPYS that they went to cover the event, but Government Palace and National […]
Globovisión reporters assaulted and thrown out of medical centre in Guacara
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 4 March 2009, Globovisión TV station journalist Janeth Carrasquilla, camera operator Saúl Arias and his assistant, Jesús Baptista, were hit and thrown out of a medical centre by a Health Department official. The incident occurred while the news team was attempting to cover the murder of a student in the municipality of […]
Photographer Roni Zambrano stopped from photographing military base; member of parliament threatens to sue “El Universo” newspaper
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 11 March 2009, Luis Alvarado Loor and Roni Zambrano, a journalist and a photographer with “Diario Súper”, were stopped from carrying out their work in the San Eduardo Naval Base, in the city of Guayaquil. The incident took place when the photographer attempted to take pictures of the base’s exterior areas where […]
Group linked to individual involved in illegal land sales threatens camera operator and journalists César Hildebrandt and Rebeca Diz of RBC Televisión
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 8 March 2009, journalist César Hildebrandt, director and host of RBC Televisión’s “El Perro del Hortelano” programme, said that he, along with his camera operator and journalist Rebeca Diz, had received threats after broadcasting a series of reports about Germán Cárdenas, an individual allegedly involved in illegal land transfers. The reports highlighted […]
Residents of Achacachi prevent journalists from covering occupation of former vice-president’s lands
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 7 March 2009, journalists from several media outlets said that a group of villagers from nine communities in the settlement of Huatajata who occupied and looted a rural property owned by former Bolivian vice-president, Víctor Hugo Cárdenas, prevented them from carrying out their work. Huatajata is located in the municipality of Achacachi, […]
Press workers barred from entering Chimbote police headquarters
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 6 March 2009, the Chief of Chimbote’s Police Division (División Policial de Chimbote, DIVIPOL), Colonel Guillermo Vía Domínguez, prohibited the press from entering the division’s headquarters, which house the emergency squadron and the police’s inspection office, among others. Vía Domínquez said that the division headquarters are like his home, and permission must […]