TODAY COLOMBIA (Prensa Latina) Threats against journalists, activists and defenders of human rights continue today in Colombia, facts interpreted here by analysts as pieces of a plot to destabilize the peace process.
Dailies, radio stations aned TV channels denounced the eve new attacks against a group of reporters, executives of news media and even Congress members like Ivan Cepeda, senator for the Polo Democratico Alternativo.
Previously in social networks like Facebook and Twitter, Colombians also rejected intimidating warnings aimed at lawyer Piedad Cordoba, leader of the movement Marcha Patriotica and social, political, peasant and youth leaders.
According to Interior Minister Juan Fernando Cristo, the common denominator of these acts is that most of the targets sympathize with the dialogues between government representatives and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Army of the People (FARC-EP).
The talks begun in 2012 in Cuba have the purpose of achieving a negotiated way out of domestic confrontation, that has gone on for more than half a century.
In the list of those threatened there is also a photoreporter of Popayan, who escaped yesterday from his captors, after two days in detention.
Photographer Johanny Vargas was intimidaded for revealing environmental damages done by a construction company.
Confronted with the situation, Cristo assured he will give protection to all those persons in risk, some of them after having received messages signed by the Aguilas Negras or the Autodefensas Gaitanistas.
These warnings that have begun to spread, pretend to generate a climate of uncertainty and anguish in the country, in moments when we3 approach the final point of the peace talks to end the war lasting for more than 50 years, insisted the Minister of the Interior.
According to Cristo, specialized groups concentrate their efforts in exposing and arrest those responsible for those actions, which he described as unacceptable.
