This Friday, August 2, in the evening hours, journalist Jonathan Maldonado received calls on WhatsApp from unknown numbers and from abroad, in which he was threatened that if he did not leave the country they would look for him at his house.
Author: Omaira Labrador / The nation
The border correspondent of The Nation NewspaperJonathan Maldonado has been the victim of threats and intimidation through pamphlets, calls and WhatsApp messages seeking to disrupt his journalistic work in the area.
Last Monday, July 29, a pamphlet circulated through WhatsApp groups and other social networks in which they attempted to undermine Maldonado’s journalistic work on the border through lies and slander.
All this is triggered by complaints that citizens have been making about armed and hooded motorcyclists who have been intimidating border residents. And this was public, notorious and widely reported on election day in the border area.
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On Friday, August 2, in the evening, the journalist received calls on WhatsApp from unknown numbers from abroad, threatening him that if he did not leave the country, they would look for him at his home. Later, from the same number, they sent him the pamphlet with the heading “Operation tun tun.”
“My work has always been based on journalistic ethics, on the commitment to tell the truth and to keep citizens informed of each of the scenarios that occur on the border, always adhering to the veracity of the facts,” Maldonado emphasized, demanding respect for the performance of his profession.
This is not the first time that threats have been made against the graduate in social communication, and they have been documented internally, but this time they have been made public at the same time as an end to the intimidation of a journalist who does his job responsibly on a daily basis and covers everything that happens in the border strip.
It should be noted that these threats are an attack on the exercise of the profession, freedom of the press and human rights.
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