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Related: About this forumAction Alert: Death Threats to Honduran Journalist & Her Children
Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 05:46 PM PST.
Action Alert: Death Threats to Honduran Journalist & Her Children
by Justina
As a result of the illegal coup to depose then Honduran President, Manual Zelaya, in 2009, in which the U.S. played an under-handed role, Hondurans have endured multiple assassinations, kidnapping, and brutal suppression of their basic human rights. The horrors continue in that poor, lawless country, in which unionists, journalists and ordinary citizens who have continued to fight for basic human rights, have been targeted for threats, arrests, kidnapping and outright assassination. Eighteen journalists have already been killed, 25 have received death threats, 4 have been kidnapped and tortured, and 37 other attacks on journalists recorded.
One such journalist, Gilda Silvestrucchi, who hosts a radio program, has, within the last twenty days, been personally threatened. She dared to interview two opponents of a pending new mining law. Not only have anonymous callers informed her, right after her interviews, that she was to be murdered, but they threatened to kill her children as well.
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras (Cofadeh) has put out an international alert asking the world to demand that she receive protection from Honduran government officials. Their alert gives details:
On January 3, 2012 while on her way to work at the radio program Gilda was followed. On January 20, 2012, her mother received a phone call from a male voice requesting information regarding the routine of Gilda Carolina Silvestrucchi including what time she arrived home, where she was during the day and where he could find her. The unknown caller questioned the mother under the pretense of knowing the exact time when she could be found at home.
More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/26/1058909/-Action-Alert:-Death-Threats-to-Honduran-Journalist-Her-Children?detail=hide&via=blog_603726
This article was written by someone many here know and have respected for years. Of course information like this NEVER gets even a nod from our own corporate media. NEVER. A whole world is in motion out there, and they just don't exist, unless they are valuable to the right-wing scum who control ownership of the media.
Many thanks to Justina for shedding some light on Honduras as it is right now.
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Action Alert: Death Threats to Honduran Journalist & Her Children (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2012
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roody
(10,849 posts)1. A link to contact the US embassy
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)2. Thank you for this link, roody. n/t