El Salvador Newspaper Accused of Spreading 'Fear and Terror'
El Salvador Newspaper Accused of Spreading 'Fear and Terror'
Published 15 January 2016 (23 hours 39 minutes ago)
A Salvadoran police chief leveled accusations against a local newspaper for exaggerating the power of gangs and spreading public fear in its coverage.
The Salvadoran newspaper El Diario de Hoy could face investigation over its coverage of gangs, which one of the country’s top detectives has claimed overstates the power and control of gangs in the country and instills fear among the population.
According to Hector Perla, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, the accusation is an attempt to push back against a right-wing media campaign in El Salvador that is effectively “a psychological war of fear on the Salvadoran populace.”
Salvadoran Chief Inspector Joaquin Hernandez urged the Attorney General’s office in a letter dated Dec. 23 to open an investigation for a case of “Apology of Acts of Terrorism” against the right-wing Salvadoran newspaper El Diario de Hoy.
In the letter, Hernandez accused El Diario de Hoy of provoking “fear and terror” among the public by “magnifying” the presence and power of gangs in a series of stories about gang operations in the capital city of San Salvador that the newspaper published between Dec. 20 and Dec. 23.
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