Honduran journalist killing makes 8 for the year

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Honduran journalist killing makes 8 for the year
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 26, 2010 -- Updated 0029 GMT (0829 HKT)

(CNN) -- A Honduran reporter was found shot to death Tuesday in the city of San Pedro Sula, making him at least the eighth journalist killed in the country this year.

Unidentified gunmen shot Israel Zelaya Diaz twice in the head and once in the chest, according to local press reports. Zelaya worked for broadcaster Radio International. He had last been seen earlier Tuesday.

"It is a very deep hurt in my heart because it leaves a hole in me, I'm left helpless, I'm left alone," said his daughter, Angie Gabriela Zelaya. "I feel very bad because of everything that is happening in the country and the authorities must investigate the death of my father because this cannot stand."

Zelaya worked as a journalist for more than 20 years and reported on national issues during his radio show.

International press freedom organizations expressed alarm at the killing of another journalist in Honduras.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/25/honduras.journalist.killed/index.html#fbid=q1U2OJnT7yd&wom=false

[rpannier]

1. It's so great we let by-gones be by-gones

After all, it was only the subversion of Democracy

on note: We don't always agree, but you do an excellent job of finding interesting articles relating to Central and South America (as well as other parts of the world)
Thanks Judi Lynn

[Judi Lynn]

10. Thank you, rpannier, I got hooked on Latin American events from reading message boards

populated by people who had been there, knew about things of which I'd never heard. I was hooked forever after that, can never turn away, can't go back.

Very kind of you to leave this comment.

[murdoch]

2. Thank you Obama!

At least under Bush the US overthrew no democracies.

Obama funded the military in Honduras and continues to do so.

The worst crime of Obama's presidency in my opinion.

[Odin2005]

3. More US-backed terror.

:puke:

[time_has_come]

4. Other reports say this is the ninth or tenth...anyone know the real number?

Here's links:
Ninth:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=364373&CategoryId=23558
http://en.rsf.org/honduras-another-journalist-killed-ninth-25-08-2010,38201.html
http://www.freemedia.at/singleview/5112/
Tenth:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iUTgJPr3UqTDQS1m4KUr07rtvZ9A

[Downwinder]

5. I would take anything from CNN to be a conservative number. n/t

[time_has_come]

6. I try not to pigeon hole media sources like that. Be dispassionate.

Truth will out, mostly

[EFerrari]

12. Not pigeon-holing a source that performs in the same way over and over

is not bringing your own experience to bear.

[Judi Lynn]

7. CNN Lastin America is extremely right-wing, pro-oligarchy. You are so right.

They ran with total disinormation when the rancid golpistas in Venezuela forcibly kidnapped him from office and stole his government. They work with the private anti-Chavez news media in Venezuela, have since Chavez was inaugurated in February, 1999.

[EFerrari]

8. When we first heard from friends that journalists were being kidnapped

and tortured, some of us called Kerry and Boxer and the Foreign Relations Committee. It hadn't gotten to the papers yet. Nobody did anything (or, they kept doing what they were doing, supporting the coup) and now journalists are just showing up dead.

But I guess it doesn't matter because no one is going to raise the minimum wage in Honduras any time soon.

[formercia]

11. Protecting profits at all cost

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Judi Lynn]

9. A radio reporter is murdered in Honduras

2 minutes ago
A radio reporter is murdered in Honduras

The body of Radio Internacional host & reporter Israel Zelaya Díaz was found by the side of a road next to a sugar cane field. Reports say his murder was an execution, as he was shot three times in the head and none of his personal belongings, including money, were taken. He was the target of an arson attack earlier this year. Zelaya, who also worked in the past with HRN and Radio América, becomes the ninth journalist murdered in Honduras in 2010, a majority of whom worked in radio. Reporters Without Borders says with the killing of Zelaya, Honduras joins Mexico as the two deadliest countries in the western hemisphere for journalists.

http://www.radio-info.com/news/a-radio-reporter-is-murdered-in-hondurast

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Google translation from Spanish language newspaper:
Another journalist murdered in Honduras, totaling 10 this year

http://www3.elcaribe.com.do.nyud.net:8090/site/opt/media/2009/12/08/9b84214c069c36b3102e102a4b87a3e3.jpg

Tegucigalpa ( EFE ) .- Honduran journalist Israel Díaz Zelaya was killed today near San Pedro Sula , north, totaling nine in that same fate has befallen so far in 2010, local media reported.

The body of the community, according to the simple statement in the media , citing police sources , had three bullet wounds to the head and was left in a sugar cane plantation in the area of Villanueva , to where he was born in a taxi.

http://www3.elcaribe.com.do/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=253732:asesinan-a-otro-periodista-en-honduras-suman-10-este-ano&catid=131:internacionales&Itemid=151

http://a3.twimg.com.nyud.net:8090/profile_images/64785467/Robert_mug_normal.JPG
Google translation from Spanish language source:

FEPALC journalists concerned about violence in Honduras
Thursday, August 26, 2010 14:47

The Federation of Journalists in Latin America and the Caribbean ( FEPALC ) expressed concern about the height extreme violence against journalists and health freedom of expression in Honduras, which has come to end the killing of another journalist, the last 24 August.

Before the assassination of Israel Díaz Zelaya , bringing to nine the number of communities affected so far this year , the front FEPALC requires them to government authorities of Honduras to display their best efforts to locate the perpetrators of such heinous crime.

Demand , as well as a first option is ruled out easy route , de, en pas police investigations, shuffling as prime motive for the crime of urban crime. Plus, when there is evidence that in the specific case of Zelaya Diaz 's body was found with all their personal belongings , including cash , leaving aside the hypothesis of theft.

The journalist, host of " Clear and peeled , " Radio International, in San Pedro de Sula, was one of the activists in the media , showed his anti - coup that removed from power in President Manuel Zelaya 2009.

The situation is exacerbated since the now deceased had reported being the victim of an attack on his home .

More:
http://www.cronicaviva.com.pe/index.php/prensa/27-prensa/2255-fepalc-expresa-preocupacion-por-violencia-a-periodistas-en-hondura

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Google translation of a Spanish language article:

RSF condemns murder of Honduran journalist Israel Zelaya

Paris ( AP) - Radio America. Reporters Without Borders ( RSF ) condemned the killing of journalist Díaz Zelaya Honduras Israel for reasons still unknown, and reiterated his concern about the increasing threats against journalists who opposed the coup in Honduras.

The murder of Zelaya , host of a program of " International Radio in San Pedro Sula, may be related, according to RSF , in its opposition to the coup that brought the power of ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009.

The reporter's body was found Tuesday with three bullets in the head in a sugar cane plantation near the town of Villanueva (north of Tegucigalpa), with money and personal belongings , which excludes the robbery as a motive the crime.

The organization said in a statement that although the causes of this new crime of a Honduran journalist , the ninth so far this year, are still unknown, "should not serve as a pretext to rule from the beginning professional or political track " .

The murdered journalist began his career in the early '60s, collaborating with two of the most important radio stations of Honduras, " HNR "and "Radio America " as well as for the newspaper La Tribuna . "

Later, in early 2010 , Zelaya 's home was destroyed by arson.

RSF reported that "still has not done justice by the carnage of the violence against the Honduran press for fourteen months " and stressed that "the repression and threats against the media who opposed the coup have not ceased .

http://www.radioamerica.hn/sitio.cfm?pag=leenoticias&t=Nacionales&id=24459

[Judi Lynn]

13. Honduras: cops attack striking teachers —again

Honduras: cops attack striking teachers —again

Submitted by Weekly News Update on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 10:43. Honduran police arrested some 150 people while using tear gas and water cannons to disperse a demonstration by teachers, students and others in Tegucigalpa on Aug. 27, the 23rd day of a strike by teachers over their pension fund and other issues. The protest, which blocked Central America Boulevard for three hours, was called by the Federation of Teachers Organizations of Honduras (FOMH), which includes six unions, and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a coalition that formed last year to oppose the June 2009 military coup against then-president José Manuel ("Mel") Zelaya Rosales.

"We had to repel violent aggression and remove the protesters," police commissioner Mario Chamorro said in a press conference. "And we almost immediately released the detainees." The police said the demonstrators burned tires, set up barricades and confronted police agents with clubs, rocks and firebombs. The Associated Press wire service reported that masked teachers fired rifles and revolvers and broke car and shop windows, although it was not clear whether the AP correspondent claimed to have witnessed this or was citing police sources.

The unions and the FNRP said the police attacked the protesters "in a savage manner," launching hundreds of tear gas grenades indiscriminately against protesters and bystanders. Agents clubbed protesters and charged into the nearby Francisco Morazán National Pedagogic University (UPNFM), where they searched classrooms for protesters. The operation was directed by Deputy Police Chief Rene Maradiaga Panchame, accused by human rights organizations of participating in the notorious Battalion 3-16 death squad, which disappeared around 100 people during the 1980s. "Before, the sicarios hid themselves—now they don't," said Berta Oliva, coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), a leading human rights organization.

It was not clear how many people were injured by the agents or affected by the tear gas. Protesters charged that two public institutions, the School Hospital and the Social Security Hospital, turned the injured away without treatment. (El Nuevo Herald, Miami, Aug. 27 from AP; Red Morazánica de Información, Aug 27, via FNRP website)

More:
http://www.ww4report.com/node/9010