The risks of Practicing Journalism

[Andronex]

Tegucigalpa, Mar 29 Honduras has become one of the most dangerous places to practice journalism if we take into account the murders of five journalists during March.

The most recent crimes took place last weekend in Olancho department, where hired assassins massacred Jose Bayardo Mairena and Victor Manuel Juarez some minutes after they finished a space news program in Super 10 radio station in Catacamas locality. Also David Meza from El Patio radio station in Ceiba city, Nahum Palacios, news director of Aguan's television network and Joseph Ochoa from channel 51 in Tegucigalpa died under the same circumstances.

Spokesman of the Security Secretariat Leonel Sauceda stated that the investigations on the murders are advanced; no one has been arrested or tried for these crimes yet. The Human Rights Platform denounced that this is "a strategy of terror, immobilization and persecution against those who oppose the coup."

Many of these journalists used their spaces as a platform to denounce the rupture of the institutional order in June 28 and the violations to human rights committed by de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) condemned the recent attacks and urged the authorities to investigate the crimes, capture those responsible for them and take actions to improve the safety of the journalists.

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[Andronex]

1. ...and not a peep from Hillary

but you can be sure if this was going on in Venezuela it would be front page news across the western medias. This is truly an upside down world.