Excellent article posted by struggle4progress on Uribe's threats to American journalist:

[Judi Lynn]

A Reporter on the Lam in Latin America
El Nuevo Herald’s Gonzalo Guillén is the latest victim of Bush buddy Álvaro Uribe
By Chuck Strouse
Published: October 18, 2007

Gonzalo Guillén is on the lam. His wife and son are in hiding.

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe publicly belittled the reporter. Strangers repeatedly threatened to murder him. His bodyguard disappeared.
"I got a call at my home ... a guy said, 'We can kill you,'" Guillén recalls from Lima, Peru, where he's been laying low for five days. "Then the threats started coming fast. Five calls at my home, e-mails, 24 death threats in 48 hours. I was afraid for me, for my family. I left the country in a sprint."

Sound like a spy thriller?

It ain't.

Guillén has for seven years been a reporter for Miami's El Nuevo Herald, one of America's top Spanish-language publications. He's one of two Colombian journalists whom President Uribe has dumped on in the past two weeks. Daniel Coronell, a columnist for the well-known magazine Semana, also went abroad after the president publicly called him "a coward, a liar, a swine, and a professional slanderer." In this South American country, where vigilante justice rules, insults can mean bloodshed.

"Outrageous," comments Joel Simon of New York's Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). "President Uribe knows that to say this kind of thing opens the doors for {thugs} to potentially kill."

More:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-10-18/news/a-reporter-on-the-lam-in-latin-america/

struggle4progress
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3281130#3281810