Critical Honduran reporter survives shooting attack

[Judi Lynn]

Critical Honduran reporter survives shooting attack

New York, September 16, 2010--Honduran authorities must fully investigate an attempted shooting on Tuesday of journalist Luis Galdámez Álvarez, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Unidentified gunmen in the capital, Tegucigalpa, shot at Galdámez outside his home, he told CPJ. Galdámez was uninjured.

Galdámez, a reporter for the national broadcaster Radio Globo and Globo TV, was going into his house in the neighborhood of Villa Centroamericana around 11:30 p.m. when unidentified gunmen hiding behind bushes fired at him at least eight times, the journalist told CPJ. Galdámez and his son fired back at the assailants, the press said. The reporter said he and his son purchased guns after unidentified men shot him in his car in 2005.

Local authorities have not yet identified any suspects or possible motives for the attack, the journalist said.

Galdámez said he has been receiving death threats since the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. He is widely known for his criticism of the coup and the government of President Porfirio Lobo, and regularly reports on government corruption and human rights abuses allegedly committed by law enforcement during his news program "Seeking the Truth" (Tras la Verdad), the news director of Radio Globo David Romero told CPJ.

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