Posts Tagged ‘Paraguay’
April 18th, 2012
A police officer investigating a journalist’s murder was
shot dead on Saturday by two men on a motorcycle in Ponta Porã on the Brazil-Paraguay border. Paulo César Santos Magalhães, who was part of a special unit fighting organised crime, was leading the investigation into the death of journalist
Paulo Rocaro, also shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle in February. Magalhães stopped at traffic lights before being shot 13 times.
Four other Brazilian journalists besides Rocaro have been murdered this year. Investigations into their deaths are ongoing.
March 29th, 2012
Two
Brazilian journalists
were murdered near the Paraguayan border over the weekend. Onei de Moura, owner of weekly newspaper Costa Oeste was shot and killed in Santa Helena by a man he had allegedly argued with earlier in the day. The suspected gunman turned himself him in, but was later released. Reporter Divino Aparecido Calvalho from Radio Cultura AM was ambushed as he left his car at the radio station. Calvalho was shot three times, but managed to escape in his car. Whilst attempting to drive to a hospital, he crashed into a parked ambulance, and died some time later.
February 14th, 2012
Brazilian newspaper editor Paulo Roberto Cardoso Rodrigues was
shot dead on Sunday night, making him the
second Brazilian journalist killed in less than a week and the
third in 2012. The journalist, who was known as Paulo Rocaro, was driving home at night in Ponta Porá, a city near the country’s border with Paraguay, when two men on a motorcycle shot him at least five times. Cardoso was the editor of the local daily Jornal Da Praça and news website Mercosul News, and frequently wrote about local politics.
August 24th, 2011
Three journalists from TV station Canal 9 in
Paraguay, and the ex-director of the National Television System, Ismael Hadid, are
on trial for defamation and libel. Reporter Silvio Cuevas, host Yolanda Park, and the channel’s press director, Andrés Caballero, were sued by a lawyer, Evelio Fabio Salinas, after Cuevas in May 2010 interviewed a woman who accused the lawyer of falsifying birth certificates in order to facilitate adoptions.
July 16th, 2010
The SPP (Paraguayan Union of Journalists) has condemned
the recent actions of politicians in the city of Cuidad del Este. Last week Juan Pío Balbuena had his programme cancelled on Radio Corpus after the owner of the station made a ‘business deal’ with local politician Javier Zacarías Irún, in which he agreed not to criticise Zacarías’s political group. Zacarías’ wife, Sandra Mcleod, is mayor of Ciudad del Este and was recently accused of attempting to bribe another Radio Corpus journalist to favour her party on air. He refused and was later forced to resign.
May 20th, 2009
Sindicato de Periodistas del Paraguay assists its associates in their working situation. It works to defend the human rights of journalists as well as provide to professional training.
