byhttp://hondurashumanrights.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/david-enrique-meza-journalist-assassinated/David Enrique Meza Montesinos
David Meza Montesinos was chased by his murderers, supposedly in a double cab vehicle. When he tried to evade them, he was hit and shot a few yards from his home at about 5:20 in the afternoon.
The death of the journalist caused consternation and indignation in the Ceibeño society, nationally and internationally. Radio El Patio, where Meza worked for 30 years until his death, was filled with calls from people around, lamenting the murder of Ceibeño journalist.
According to a brief police report, the gunmen pursued the journalist up to catch a few yards from his home in the Alameda colony, in the La Ceiba sector. David Meza was shot several times and his body went limp on the passenger’s seat. The coroner and the police themselves did not provide a detailed report.
Likewise, the National Police Chief Carlos Mejia Lopez and the coordinator of the Public Ministry, Adonay Padilla, declined to give details until they have more details.
David Meza died instantly inside his vehicle, a 2008 green Kia Sportage. Motives are unknown as are the number of shots causing his death.
Meza was recognized for his extensive experience in various media such as El Patio, Ceiba Vision, BNG and Radio America. The people of La Ceiba was outraged by the cowardly assassination of a journalist completely identified with the poor and unjust causes.
Business people and political, Gonzalo Rivera lawmaker and former presidential candidate, Elvin Santos, expressed his regret over the killing of a man dedicated to God.
“I cannot believe what has happened, I have no words to express the grief that overwhelms me, God rest his soul,” Rivera said.
Elvin Santos called from Tegucigalpa to express their condolences to the family of Montesinos Meza, especially his wife Linda Cay Pandy.
SOURCE: La Tribuna, http://www.latribuna.hn/web2.0/?p=107971&cpage=1
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The inhabitants of La Ceiba link his death with Gonzálo Rivera and Roberto Turcios, who owns the URBANA construction company and has been previously prosecuted accussed of corruption for the irregular sales of houses in Villa Neen, La Ceiba by the deceased journalist through his work in Radio Patio. Thanks to him denouncing this irregular sale in which many poor families who were buying houses in very bad shape for a very high price from this construction company and who nonetheless, never received their purchase, are going to be able to get their money back on April this year.
Earlier this year, Roberto Turcios' visa was cancelled by the United States, due to his links to corruption and mainly because of being Roberto Micheletti`s, the de facto president, man of confidence.
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 Jose Zelaya, head of Immigration at the airport, confirmed the cancellation of the visa Turcios. |
Roberto Turcios appears in the Land Registry as owner of the National Urbanizadora Construction (Urban), which has several allegations of fraud in the prosecution of La Ceiba.
Turcios was reported by the crimes of fraud to the detriment of poor people who wanted to claim a home in the Villa Neen residential project, located on the east side of La Ceiba.
Many people said they paid 17.000 lempiras and other sums of money to get a low-cost housing, which Turcios not delivered in due time.
Some of the complainants told the prosecution that they have been waiting for a response from the Urbana company for them to them back the money they had paid ahead as bonus, but Turcios can never be found in his office.
The prosecution in La Ceiba, which is coordinated by lawyer Adonay Padilla, is investigating these allegations to proceed legally against the businessman.
Turcios was reported by the crimes of fraud to the detriment of poor people who wanted to claim a home in the Villa Neen residential project, located on the east side of La Ceiba.
Many people said they paid 17.000 lempiras and other sums of money to get a low-cost housing, which Turcios not delivered in due time.
Some of the complainants told the prosecution that they have been waiting for a response from the Urbana company for them to them back the money they had paid ahead as bonus, but Turcios can never be found in his office.
The prosecution in La Ceiba, which is coordinated by lawyer Adonay Padilla, is investigating these allegations to proceed legally against the businessman.
Radio journalist gunned down on Atlantic coast after suspected drug cartel threats
Radio journalist David Meza Montesinos last night became the second Honduran journalist to be murdered since the start of the year, following the fatal shooting of TV journalist Joseph Ochoa of Canal 51 on 1 March.
Meza was shot by unidentified gunmen in an ambush near his home in the Atlantic coast city of La Ceiba, where he worked for local radio station El Patio as well as for Radio América, a national station, and Abriendo Brecha, a TV station. An often controversial journalist, he reported getting threats three weeks ago after a report about drug trafficking.
In the absence of a clear motive, Reporters Without Borders urges those investigating his murder to give priority to the possibility that it was linked to these threats. Drug cartels nowadays pose the biggest danger to the western hemisphere’s media and the Honduran Atlantic coast serves as a major way-station for traffickers.
The entire Honduran press has paid tribute to Meza, who owed his popularity to his coverage of sports events and the fact that, after Hurricane Katrina, he was sent to New Orleans, where he was the Honduran media’s only representative. Aged 51, he had worked for El Patio for the past 30 years.
The situation continues to be very alarming in Honduras, where a high level of violent crime has been compounded by human rights violations since the June 2009 coup. Reporters Without Borders is shocked by retired army general Romeo Vásquez Velásquez’s very inappropriate appointment on 8 March to head the national telecommunications company Hondutel.
It is unthinkable that Gen. Vásquez should not be called to account for the human rights violations that took place during the coup, in which he played a key part. Putting him in charge of Hondutel after the army acted as censor at the time of the coup is a political mistake that sends a very negative signal to the opposition media. It also sits poorly with President Porfirio Lobo declared desire to reconcile the deeply-divided country.
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