(IPYS/IFEX) – On 7 December 2006, a group of unidentified individuals entered the premises of television station Televisión Boliviana Regional de Santa Cruz, Channel 7, in order to set fire to the government-owned station’s facilities, but their plan was hindered by security guards. According to the station’s director, Jaime Jaramillo, the would-be arsonists left behind […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 7 December 2006, a group of unidentified individuals entered the premises of television station Televisión Boliviana Regional de Santa Cruz, Channel 7, in order to set fire to the government-owned station’s facilities, but their plan was hindered by security guards. According to the station’s director, Jaime Jaramillo, the would-be arsonists left behind fourteen litres of gasoline, some Molotov cocktails and the cover of a shotgun as they fled. The event took place in Santa Cruz, a department in eastern Bolivia.
According to the newspaper “La Razón”, the unidentified persons may have ties to the Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, a group that a few days prior had occupied the headquarters of the district tax office and the offices of the city’s forestry supervisory body, as part of their protests against the government and the Constituent Assembly.
Jaramillo stated to the press that his television station has been receiving constant threats and phone calls warning him that the facilities would be set on fire.
