Death threats to journalists increasing in Colombia

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Death threats to journalists increasing in Colombia
Saturday, 09 April 2011 09:55
Kathryn Thompson

Death threats against Colombian journalists have increased over the past six months, according to the Inter American Press Association report.

While noting that in the past six months there were no cases of journalist murders in Colombia, the report found that "major attacks on freedom of expression are being presented as death threats against journalists in Colombia."

The report on freedom of expression in Latin America was presented in California during a three day conference.

Death threats are a "worrying phenomenon because they have been growing again in recent months, according to reports from the various agencies that deal with the issue," the paper said, citing reports from numerous journalism associations.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15486-death-threats-to-journalists-increasing-in-colombia.html

[Corruption Winz]

1. Awful. I don't know what the situation is like in Colombia...

But, I have a feeling that death threats won't help any of it.

[Judi Lynn]

2. You're right, death threats won't help, nor will massacres of entire villages,

public torture of those people with machetes, knives, and chainsaws, disembowelments, beheadings, (one of the death squads being known as the "head cutters") and long campaigns of terror prior to murders help the situation in Colombia one bit. Also, government military people, and paramilitaries killing unarmed citizens, then dressing them in clothing of the leftist guerrillas and claiming them as dead rebels won't help even a little bit. That practise has been known world-wide as Colombia's problem with "false positives," for which the killers are rewarded.

The open conflict goes all the way back to the 1940's, when a leftist Presidential candidate was publicly assassinated, and a host of other leftist candidates murdered over the decades, so many times the left attempted to place candidates.

If you start your own research now, you will be able to understand why Colombia has the world's largest displaced population in the entire world now. They've all been driven out of their homes, off their land, left without jobs, or real shelter. Largest in the world. They're number 1, and this government has poured over eight billion dollars into the government of Colombia since 2000. US taxpayers are supporting the Colombian government which runs the country with the highest rate of murder of union workers in the world, higher than all the others put together. They intend to keep labor really cheap there, just as the Republicans intend to keep labor as cheap as humanly possible here.