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[Translation of an article from Revistazo.com of Tegucigalpa for January 31. See original here and related articles here and here. The El Patriota web site, mentioned below, is here.]

A week after filing a complaint of death threats with the Interior Ministry and several days after seeking injunctive relief from the Public Attorney for Human Rights and the Ministry of Public Safety, journalist Gilda Silvestruchi declares that she is still being harassed.

“I filed the complaint last week and on Friday I went to the public attorney for human rights to seek injunctive relief. They just started the investigation and so far there is nothing. The last call was at 5:30 this morning but I didn’t answer it,” the journalist said when asked about progress of the investigation of the case. (more…)

[Translation of an article from Revistazo.com of Honduras for April 26. See also “Red Alert: Killing of journalists in Honduras continues” below.]

After seven years of investigations and denunciations, argued with clarity and justice, Gerardo Chévez, a reporter for Radio Progreso, is now in the sights of those who would silence him. Now he himself is the news and it is in that position that we interviewed him.

In December of 2009, Chévez accompanied the Revistazo.com team on a tour of the city of El Progreso. The objective: to uncover the negligence of municipal authorities in the handling of 15 million lempiras [793,000 US dollars] dispursed by the national congress in 2006 for purchasing land to be used as a sanitary landfill. Four years later nothing has been done. The money, it is said, is still in the bank.

This type of investigation and others he has performed during his career as a reporter keep Chévez on a list of threatened journalists which has included seven who have already been assassinated… (more…)