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Threatened
June 26
Channel 12, THREATENED
CNN, THREATENED
Co-Latino, THREATENED
Diario Latino, THREATENED
Radio Mayavisión, THREATENED
Radio Sonora, THREATENED
Radio YSKL, THREATENED
Domestic and foreign press, THREATENED
Fuerza Nacionalista Mayor Roberto D'Aubuisson (FURODA), a right-wing underground political group, sent a communiqué to several media outlets issuing death threats against journalists, priests, and politicians. The communiqué accused them of being behind a “frantic opposition” campaign against the government of President Armando Calderon Sol. It also accused the foreign press of being “sinister and conveying a wrong image abroad of El Salvador and its government.” FURODA, named after the late founder of the ruling National Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, then sent a second communiqué in which it threatened to take action against journalists. The statement accused both the domestic and foreign press in El Salvador of negative coverage of the government and its privatization process.
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