The presence of five officers of the General Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DGIC) of Amapala, Valle, at the premises of the newly inagurated community radio station La Voz de Zacate Grande, alarmed the community of Puerto Grande, who believed that the police had arrived to close the station.According to journalists Jose Rivera, Herbert Morales, police officers arrived in the area, transported through the Gulf of Fonseca on a boat owned by the landowner Miguel Facussé with a number of private security guards, who protect the vacation mansions of the landlord.
The police who showed us their identity, told the community that their presence at the scene was routine and that they would take photos of the facilities of Radio La Voz de Zacate Grande.
Agents also consulted the journalists who were working broadcasting in the community radio on the scope the station has, whose signal is heard at 97.1 FM, and reaching the 8 communities settled in the peninsula within a radius of action of 25 kilometers.
DGIC agents told the villagers that they had been sent by the Attorney General of the Department of Valle, so the Attorney General, Luis Alberto Rubi, should clarify these facts.
According to complaints from residents, since they began the construction of the station, the landowner Miguel Facussé has sent emissaries to threaten the community and shown his strong opposition to operate a community radio station in the area.
On Wednesday April 14th , broadcasting of the Voz de Zacate Grande was formally inaugurated and since the early morning hours security guards of Miguel Facussé fired into the air with their guns to scare the neighbors .
At the end of the celebration attended by defenders of human rights, community leaders, indigenous and black leaders, religious, students, and members of the People's National Front, young Jose Adin Vargas Osorio was attacked and beaten on his face and shoulder by a security guard of Miguel Facussé.
DGIC agents told the villagers that they had been sent by the Attorney General of the Department of Valle, so the Attorney General, Luis Alberto Rubi, should clarify these facts.
According to complaints from residents, since they began the construction of the station, the landowner Miguel Facussé has sent emissaries to threaten the community and shown his strong opposition to operate a community radio station in the area.
On Wednesday April 14th , broadcasting of the Voz de Zacate Grande was formally inaugurated and since the early morning hours security guards of Miguel Facussé fired into the air with their guns to scare the neighbors .
At the end of the celebration attended by defenders of human rights, community leaders, indigenous and black leaders, religious, students, and members of the People's National Front, young Jose Adin Vargas Osorio was attacked and beaten on his face and shoulder by a security guard of Miguel Facussé.
In this regard, human rights procurators of the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), Italian journalists, artists from Argentina, and residents, were in mortal danger when the vehicles they were driving were surrounded by at least 8 security guards carrying shotguns and M-16 rifles (military use), when the work was done to document the complaint.
COFADEH documented the case and claimed that security guards of Miguel Facussé act in total impunity in full view of police and judicial authorities. At the time, General Coordinator of Cofadeh, Bertha Oliva, said "that the communities of Zacate Grande are completely defenseless."
COFADEH believes that police and paramilitary harassment in the area, promoted by the landowner Miguel Facussé represents a major threat to the physical and psychological integrity of information professionals of the Voz de Zacate Grande and the communities that inhabit the peninsula.
The police presence and the arbitrary actions of Facussé undermine freedom of expression and are against the right of peoples to be informed.
COFADEH documented the case and claimed that security guards of Miguel Facussé act in total impunity in full view of police and judicial authorities. At the time, General Coordinator of Cofadeh, Bertha Oliva, said "that the communities of Zacate Grande are completely defenseless."
COFADEH believes that police and paramilitary harassment in the area, promoted by the landowner Miguel Facussé represents a major threat to the physical and psychological integrity of information professionals of the Voz de Zacate Grande and the communities that inhabit the peninsula.
The police presence and the arbitrary actions of Facussé undermine freedom of expression and are against the right of peoples to be informed.
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