The Minister of Security, Pompeyo Bonilla, has confirmed this evening, that the lifeless body of Radio HRN journalist Ángel Alfredo Villatoro Rivera was found abandoned along the side of the road in an isolated and dimly lit region of Las Uvas, in the southern region of Tegucigalpa. Mr. Villatoro Rivera was abducted on the morning […]
It has been five days since news radio station HRN journalist Ángel Alfredo Villatoro Rivera was abducted, and yet there is still no indication of his whereabouts. Despite calls from the family and public to show mercy and release Mr. Villatoro, there is no indication that this may take place. Family members are beginning to […]
The Presidency of the Republic communicates to the Honduran people and the international community, as follows: 1. Condemnation of the abduction of the journalist Ángel Alfredo Villatoro Rivera, Coordinator of the news radio station HRN. 2. That due to the seriousness and gravity of the case, the Ministry of Security is working together with the […]
A journalist was killed this past weekend in Honduras, bringing the number of media personnel murdered in the country over the past two years to a total of eighteen. 54-year-old Fausto Evelio Valle, from Olanchito, Yoro, was an announcer for Radio Alegre in Sabá, Colón for sixteen years. He was presenter of the news program […]
President Porfirio Lobo Sosa met yesterday with the President of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and deputy managing editor of the Washington Post, Milton Coleman, to analyze the issues of freedom of the press, personal expression and freedom of information, in addition to the safety of journalists. Coleman said that, “the President told us […]