Assistant director of northeast Colombia newspaper receives death threats
Assistant director of northeast Colombia newspaper receives death threats
Apr 3, 2014 posted by Larisa Sioneriu
The assistant director of La Vanguardia Liberal, a newspaper from the northeast of Colombia, received death threats Tuesday night over the phone. The assistant director and leader of the newspaper’s investigative unit, Diana Giraldo, received a phone call from a young woman on her personal mobile phone Tuesday night from an unknown number telling her: “F***ing b***, you’re going to die.”
“At about 11PM I got a call from an unknown number. I answered and a woman insulted me and screamed that I’m going to die,” said the Assistant Director of Vanguardia adding that, “the call obviously worried me even though I have it clear that these are part of the job and part of journalism if things are being well done,” reported newspaper El Universal.
Giraldo and Vanguardia have recently been subject to defaming comments on social networks from consultants and workers at Bucamaranga’s city administration of Mayor Luis Francisco Bohorquez.
According to the newspaper, the comments followed a recent Vanguardia editorial on the . Giraldo said: In the social network and through Internet they tried to discredit me and the mass comments to any publication of Vanguardia raised the tone,” the journalist was quoted as saying.
In spite improvements made over the past decade, Colombia is still rated as one of the most dangerous countries in the world to practice journalism especially for locally based media like Vanguardia. According to the 2013 report of the Foundation for the Liberation of the Press, there have been recorded deaths of 142 journalist since 1977. The majority of these killings are of political nature.
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