JANUARY 14, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Daniel Ortiz Millán, “En Positivo” ATTACKED, THREATENED Ortiz, a radio host with the Geomar 105.1 FM station in the city of Punta de Mata, in the eastern state of Monagas, was attacked by supporters of the local mayor after he discussed an electoral dispute on the air. He…
JANUARY 11, 2005 Posted: February 2, 2005 Giovanna Rodríguez Castro, Bolivisión David Zagardia Muños, Bolivisión HARASSED, THREATENED Rodríguez and Zagardia, members of a news team from TV channel Bolivisión, were harassed and threatened while covering developments during the first day of 48-hour antigovernment protests in the southeastern city of Santa Cruz.
JANUARY 11, 2005 Updated: September 2, 2005 Julio Hernando Palacios Sánchez, Radio Lemas KILLED—CONFIRMED Two armed motorcyclists shot Palacios, 55, a veteran radio news host, as he drove to work around 5:30 a.m. in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border.
New York, January 11, 2005—Gunmen shot and killed a veteran Colombian radio news host early this morning in the city of Cúcuta, in the unstable northeastern region near the Venezuelan border. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating the murder to determine whether it was related to his journalism. Two armed motorcyclists shot Julio Hernando…
JANUARY 6, 2005 Posted: March 23, 2005 Luis Aguirre Pastor, La Voz de Madre de Dios LEGAL ACTION Aguirre, a radio journalist based in the city of Puerto Maldonado in the southern Madre de Dios region, could be barred from working as a journalist for a year after an appeals court upheld his September 2003…
New York, January 3, 2005—Even in a year of combat casualties brought on by war, murder remained the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists worldwide in 2004, an analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. Thirty-six of the 56 journalists who died in the line of duty in 2004 were murdered, continuing…