Juanita Leon, the media godmother who is killing press freedom in Colombia
by Adriaan Alsema June 21, 2020
A lawyer has corrupted journalism in Colombia to the point that the press freedom foundation in unable to reject her stigmatization of journalists while their reporting on mafia infiltration in politics already put their lives at risk.
Juanita Leon, the owner of of political news website La Silla Vacia, has been accumulating so much power since 2006 that is has compromised the independence of the Foundation for the Freedom of Press (FLIP).
While Leon calls the journalists who revealed evidence of ties between the mafia and the party of former President Alvaro Uribe “anti-Uribe activists,” the FLIP told Colombia Reports it “cannot deny Juanita Leon’s great contribution to FLIP.”
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Taking the Leon Clan to Washington DC
While some of Colombia’s best journalists are fearing for their lives and others are silenced, the FLIP director is running to become the Special Rapporteur of the Freedom of Speech of the Organization of American States (OAS) in October.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/juanita-leon-the-media-godmother-who-is-killing-press-freedom-in-colombia/
