El Salvador Journalists’ Association condemns harassment and defamation of radio journalist members and New Ideas candidate for mayor of Santa Tecla
Manuel Pacheco, a longtime journalist for Radio YSKL, denounced that he was the victim of harassment and slander by the candidate for mayor of Santa Tecla for New Ideas, Henry Flores and other militants of the ruling party.
Pacheco said that on Saturday, when he came to cover a proselytizing event, two female members of Nuevas Ideas came out to meet him to take pictures with cameras and mobile phones and began persecuting him, with the intention of preventing him from -is doing his job. .
“I arrived today to cover the New Ideas event, in the city of Santa Tecla … The two young women saw me immediately, went out to meet me and started taking photos and videos of me. They didn’t stop taking pictures of me, I felt harassed “, said the journalist.
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After a few minutes, he said, they didn’t stop photographing him and he approached one of them and asked him not to take pictures. The women stopped for a moment, but then continued to harass him.
A few hours later, Nueva Ideas candidate for mayor of Santa Tecla, Henry Flores, who did not assist the journalist in harassing his party’s militants, gave another version of events and made serious accusations against Pacheco.
The journalist points out that, first of all, Flores did not witness all the “harassment” and “aggression” with which the two women acted against him and the way in which they prevented her from working as a journalist. As if that wasn’t enough, Flores posted several photos with Pacheco on social media and claimed that he was working for a party and that he “threatened” a woman from the official team.
The president of the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES), Angélica Cárcamo, said that the union investigated and took over the journalist’s story, thus expressing her concern about these events.
“We are concerned that a candidate from a political party is dedicated to accusing a journalist, without having evidence that the journalist accused two of his supporters; if there is no evidence, it is defamation and it is a crime, ”he warned.
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Meanwhile, the candidate for deputy for the Nuestro Tiempo party, Bertha María Deleón, denounced that “Henry Flores, candidate for mayor for Idei Noi, is, by definition, from the #LosMismosDeSiempre club. He worked in the Presidential House in the two governments of @FMLNoficial. He is an opportunist without principles, young yes, but harmful “.
Deputy Karla Hernández, from ARENA, published: “I have known Pacheco from @radioyskl for years. It is his turn to cover @AsambleSV and he is very respectful. Posting photos this way and with false accusations is serious. Stop harassing the press. Please follow this @CIDH ”.
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