Journalist Edward Quispe was released along with his cameraman Elmer Valdiviezo after being kidnapped by patrolmen from the La Palma community, Chadín district (Chota, Cajamarca) while he was conducting investigations into the case Yenifer Paredespresident’s sister-in-law peter castle.
The Sunday show reporter drew national attention by interrupting the programming of America Television in order to read a statement from a village in Cajamarca in exchange for being released. According to him, his captors “were between 40 and 50 patrolmen with whips.”
What did the statement say?
The press man narrated passages of the experience that he had to live while fulfilling his journalistic work. Fearing for his life, she asked her kidnappers what they would do with him. “At one point I tell them, ‘So what are you going to do? Are they going to hit us or kill us?’ And one of them tells me: ‘You don’t worry about it. You just calm down, that’s going to happen’“, accurate. In exchange for his release, they demanded that he “apologize” at the national level for the report on Yenifer Paredes with the reading of a statement dictated by themselves.
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“Good evening, I am heading to the country. We are in the community of Las Palmas, district of Chadín. We find ourselves in dialogue with the peasant patrols of Chavín, who represent the interests and needs of their people. We were intervened when statements were taken from people who do not respond culturally, asking them questions about cases of Yenifer Paredeswho is summoned by the National Prosecutor’s Office, “said the communicator in exchange for being released.
“In this sense, as a media outlet, we represent ‘Fourth power’it is a false accusation, for which we rectify ourselves as the press not to harm the central government and their families”, he added.
Before ending the live link, he sent words to his relatives: “In this last part, we address our families to inform them that the rounds have treated us humanely and that, after reading this statement, as part of the agreement, we will leave the place in our vehicle safe and sound”, he said before being taken to Bambamarca.
YOU CAN SEE: Eduardo Quispe after experiencing kidnapping: “It was a threatening speech, we had to agree to the conditions”
It also revealed some details of the questionable event. “They dictated that statement, they asked me to write it. At that time, we we have agreed to all their requests because obviously we were in a difficult situation”, Quispe told in dialogue with Canal N.
At a certain moment, the journalist stated that the members of the community in question felt intimidated, since —in the words of the journalist— “the report that was presented (about the president’s sister-in-law in ‘Fourth Power’) harmed them in obtaining the work in the short or medium term.
Who is Eduardo Quispe?
Eduardo Franco Quispe Palacios is a journalist from University of San Martin de Porres, and has been working in the press since 2008. He did his first jobs at Agencia PerúTV as a video reporter for two years, according to his detailed information on Linkedin.
Later, he worked at Willax Television, from 2010 to 2013, preparing interviews and editing reports. He currently works as a reporter for “Fourth Power.”
Public Ministry opens investigation for the kidnapping of journalists
Through his social networks, the Public ministry reported that the aggressors will be investigated for crimes against freedom (kidnapping) and property (theft) to the detriment of the reporters.
“The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office opened an ex officio investigation into the events that occurred in the district of Chandín in Cajamarca, for the crime against freedom (kidnapping), and the crime against property (theft), to the detriment of 2 journalists from Fourth Power” says the statement from the Prosecutor’s Office.
