Colombia Reporter Arrest Goal Denounced

22.11.06

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Multinational TELESUR television station journalist Freddy Muñoz´s arrest in Colombia has the intention to create a crisis between Bogota and Caracas governments, according to a denunciation on Wednesday.

An article published on Wednesday in the Rebelion daily web site, which has been confirmed by well known journalist Pascual Serrano, warned that detention of Muñoz on Sunday has the objective of creating a crisis between Colombia and Venezuela.

Serrano considers that the incident tries to erode TELESUR legitimacy and credibility, because the Colombian intelligence service is justifying its action, pressing supposed charges of rebellion and terrorism against Muñoz.

The article makes Alvaro Uribe´s government responsible for violating freedom of speech, and affirms that Freddy could have been assassinated at any moment, just for revealing the truth about Colombia and its armed conflict to an international audience.

The text says President Uribe is now in the dilemma of not becoming hostage of the militarist sectors that want to silence an honest journalist, and cause trouble with Venezuela, or joining, once again, the most powerful groups.

The human rights organizations found Freddy as an honest journalist, who is interested in his denunciations, and now the Colombian attorneys are accusing him of terrorism, because apparently, he used to place bombs between report and report, he said.

Serrano said Muñoz rebelled against lies and the manipulation that tries to hide the truth of Colombia, causing terror to government top officials in that South American nation.

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