(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 2005, a news crew from the television news channel Globovisión, led by journalist Gabriela Matute, was insulted and intimidated by supporters of President Hugo Chávez’s government, who were gathered outside the Attorney General’s Office. The reporters were at the scene to cover a demonstration by the Primero Justicia opposition party. […]
(IPYS/IFEX) – On 21 November 2005, a news crew from the television news channel Globovisión, led by journalist Gabriela Matute, was insulted and intimidated by supporters of President Hugo Chávez’s government, who were gathered outside the Attorney General’s Office. The reporters were at the scene to cover a demonstration by the Primero Justicia opposition party.
Matute told IPYS that, when the march ended, several people, who were shouting slogans in support of the attorney general, approached the news crew and insulted the reporters and the television channel, calling it “Poison-Vision” (“Veneno-visión”).
Even though the Metropolitan Police tried to intervene, the news team was forced to leave the area.
