{"id":25606,"date":"2011-08-16T12:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2011-08-16T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T11:26:40","slug":"venezuela-reporter-threatened-radio-presenters-programme-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25606","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Reporter threatened, radio presenter&#8217;s programme censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuelan<\/a> reporter Carlos S\u00e1nchez was <a title=\"Knight Center - Venezuelan journalist threatened, kidnapped\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/en\/node\/7028\" target=\"_blank\">threatened<\/a> with a pistol when he left the offices of Radio Fe y Alegr\u00eda in the city of Maracaibo on 1 August. The unknown gunmen beat and robbed S\u00e1nchez, and then drove him around the city for an hour before releasing him. In a <a title=\"IFEX - Journalist's programme cancelled because of political pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/venezuela\/2011\/08\/12\/viola_programa\/\" target=\"_blank\">separate case<\/a> in the country, a\u00a0programme on radio station Primer\u00edsima 98.5 FM, Magazine Informativo, was last month cancelled just fifteen days after its first broadcast due to political pressure. Presenter and journalist Henry Viola said the station&#8217;s director informed him the show would be cut &#8220;following orders from above&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan reporter Carlos S\u00e1nchez was threatened with a pistol when he left the offices of Radio Fe y Alegr\u00eda in the city of Maracaibo on 1 August. The unknown gunmen beat and robbed S\u00e1nchez, and then drove him around the city for an hour before releasing him. In a separate case in the country, a\u00a0programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,727,7348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25622,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions\/25622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}