(IPYS/IFEX) – Enrique Alfonso Camargo Plata, director of four news programmes for Radio Guatapurí, in Valledupar, César department, northern Colombia, received two death threats on 1 and 2 October 2005. The first message came by telephone; the second was sent as a text message to his cellular phone the next day. Camargo does not know […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – Enrique Alfonso Camargo Plata, director of four news programmes for Radio Guatapurí, in Valledupar, César department, northern Colombia, received two death threats on 1 and 2 October 2005. The first message came by telephone; the second was sent as a text message to his cellular phone the next day.
Camargo does not know who made the threats but he does not rule out the possibility of a link to his recent reporting on corruption in local public services.
On 3 October, Camargo filed a complaint with the local public security department (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS), who ordered an immediate escort for the journalist to guarantee his safety.
