According to journalist Mavis Cruz, police chief tried to shut down her news program.

 by Radio Progreso Honduras 

 Journalist  of San Pedro Sula, Mavis Cruz, director of information program "News of the Hour", broadcast by Radio Frequency Romance, reported that her  program was almost closed by influences of the Police Commissioner Hector Ivan Mejia.

Journalist Mavis Cruz, is the founder of TN-5 news and 11 News in San Pedro Sula, and recently worked as a presenter on Channel 6.

Mavis Cruz explained that the attempted censorship began "after making a relation of facts regarding the murder of our colleague Georgino Orellana and mentioning Mejía ."

  The issue generated the reaction of the listeners who are still outraged by the death of Georginao and the lack of response by security officials filled the phone lines of the program to express their opinion on the issue.

At the conclusion of the program, Mavis Cruz, received a call from the administration of Radio Romance, who informed her that her program was canceled.

 The journalist suprised asked if the determination to eliminate the space was due to the journalistic content of her program, to which they replied that Mejia had called the owners of the media complaining that they were "speaking ill of the police" .

On the next day Mavis Cruz met with the owners of Radio Romance, and demanded that they be write the reasons for the cancellation of her program. After waiting three hours for the paper, she was told to continue working normally, said the journalist.

She acknowledged that in five years she has worked with the institution this is the first incident that she suffers.

 

"I've always defended my point of view against the coup and of human rights abuses and freedom of expression and the owners always been respected, me" said Cruz, who said she is worried that she or her family may suffer retaliation just because of her occupation.

 

Mejia denied having made the call to the owners of Radio Romance to cancel the program,  in via telephone communication he had with the husband of Mavis Cruz.

Source: http://radioprogresohonduras.blogspot.com/2010/04/segun-periodista-mavis-cruz-jefe.html