AFP - Two journalists were shot dead Friday in Honduras, bringing to five the total number of journalists murdered in this country during the month of March alone, it was learned official source.
The two journalists were traveling in their car in the Olancho department (is) when unknown persons opened fire at them from another vehicle, whose killers "even down to complete their victims, "he told reporters Rigoberto Contreras, Fire Chief Juticalpa, a town 200 miles east of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
Bayardo Mairena, who hosted programs on radio and local television, was killed instantly, and Manuel Juarez, his assistant, died of his wounds shortly afterwards in hospital, said fire chief added that they did not know the reasons for these killings.
They followed a string of murders of journalists committed this month. March 15, Nahum Palacios Arteaga, 34, was shot in his car in Tocoa (north). He worked for a radio and television stations. "We really wanted to kill him, the car had 41 impacts "of bullets, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Security.
journalist and a colleague had recently received telephone threats warning them to stop" defending the poor, "according to the Committee for freedom of expression, organization
private defense of the press.
Since the coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya June 28, 2009, "Nahum Palacios Arteaga had been abused and harassment by the military which had confiscated her
tools ", said the committee in a statement.
March 11, journalist David Meza, 51, was shot dead in his car in La Ceiba, the port on the Atlantic coast, 500 km north of Tegucigalpa. He was a correspondent for a radio and television station in the capital.
March 2, another journalist, Joseph Hernandez, 26, was killed in Tegucigalpa by gunfire that had injured Cabrera, a columnist who attributed the attack to followers of the former President Zelaya.
Source: France24
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