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‘First they brought two helicopters, after they landed two more, unloaded troops and went away. But it was listened that they launched two bombs there down in Santa Rosa, a place near here. It was morning when they began the fights and at the lunch time they still on it. Three persons of the community sat outside their house taking lunch. The army came shooting, the three young men ran and took refuge in the kitchen, they closed the door, but three soldiers went behind them and shot to the kitchen’s door. One of the soldiers kicked the door and said: Shit! The fucked! The three brothers remained there, together, dead.’
A Venezuelan court for the protection of rights of children and youth, prohibited newspapers to publish photos of violence and blood. The law was ruled in a first moment for El Nacional newspaper after it published a picture of the Morgue of Caracas to talk about the numbers of murders in the city. The journal that is considered in the opposition to the government, was ordered to avoid the publication of photos that can ‘infringe the psychological and moral integrity of boys, girls and teenagers.‘ Caracas is considered so far one of the most violent cities of the world with an alarming increase of criminality, a fact that the newspaper was denouncing through the picture.
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A reward of 272 thousand dollars was offered by the government of president Juan Manuel Santos for reports to find the authors of the terrorist attack against Caracol Radio headquarters in Bogotá last Thursday. There is already a man that has been arrested by the prosecutor in connection with the violent event, but there is not yet reliable information to state who was behind the crime.
Another anniversary more of the absent of one of our more standing journalists: Jaime Garzón. He was murdered on August 13, 1999 at 5:45 AM. Since then, the crime became a kind of movie with more killings, mysteries and challenges for the justice. The terrorist attack to Caracol Radio just a day before the anniversary of Jaime makes us to understand something: impunity is the main seed of violence in our country. Since impunity will continue its reign on our soil, criminals will continue killing, destroying our dreams, threaten our future… Just we need more men like Jaime. Just we need a real justice to give peace to our dead and hope to our children.
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The office for the attention of emergencies of Bogotá made a census of the families affected by the explosion in front to the Caracol Radio headquarters this Thursday morning. The impact of the terrorist attack against the radio station reached 68 blocks around, 16 cars, 698 adults and 110 children, according to the report of Guillermo Escobar, director of the office.
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Authorities, politicians, journalists and many others are analyzing now in Colombia who could be behind the terrorist attack against Caracol Radio in Bogotá this week. Sadly, our country has many enemies, the enemies of democracy, freedom, moral and civilization. There is a general prudence in giving the responsibility to any suspect, though for some sources it could be likely the Farc guerrillas. The message is clear: the authors of this barbarian act want to impose their points of view at the dawn of this new government.
Continue reading »The morning of Thursday began in Bogotá with a terrorist attack against the main quarters of the Caracol Radio Station. Director Darío Arismendi, who was about to start his daily news at 5:30 said to the audience that a strong exploitation shook the whole building and created a great panic. The authorities released a video of the car used for the attack seconds before the exploitation with a female suspect in the place.
In what is seen as press censorship, the Circle of Journalists of Bogotá (CPB), rejected the new rules established by the Ministry of Domestic Affairs. During the elections, news on public order’s disturbances should be supported by official statements of the authorities, said the new ruling.
Drawing: “Freedom, American style”, 1950, by Nikolay Dolgorukov and Boris Efimov
The report of the Unesco on global journalism released in March 2010, concluded that the situation of freedom of press has not improved in the last years, while the number of killed journalists has increased. The International Program for the Development of Communication, published on March 17 the report The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.
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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by Manuel González Olaechea y Franco.
The presence of prestigious Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has risen concerns in the Venezuela of president Hugo Chávez, famous for his socialist project for the South American nation. Vargas Llosa, one of the most important authors of the Hispanic literature, came to Caracas for the International Congress on Freedom and Democracy organized by the Center of Promulgation of the Economic Knowledge for Freedom (Cedic). The former president of Bolivia, Jorge Quiroga, is also in the Congress.
Tensions rose already when the Peruvian author arrived to the Maiquetía International Airport and was retained for 90 minutes by the Venezuelan authorities.
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