Organized crime’s hand seen in border town radio station owner’s murder

Organized crime’s hand seen in border town radio station owner’s murder
Published on Thursday 7 February 2013.

Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the police investigation into yesterday evening’s murder of local radio station owner and manager Marcelino Vázquez in Pedro Juan Caballero, the capital of Amambay, an eastern department that borders Brazil.

A marijuana-growing region with a reputation for being dangerous, Amambay is also a leading hub in the trafficking of so-called hard drugs to the Southern Cone countries. Its journalists are constantly exposed to threats, as are their Brazilian colleagues on the other side of the border.

Reporters Without Borders devoted a fact-finding visit and report to this subject in 2011.

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President Fernando Lugo’s removal in a parliamentary “coup” last June has had a negative impact on freedom of information in Paraguay, which fell 11 places in the latest Reporters Without Borders press freedom index. Reporters Without Borders intends to closely follow the campaign for next April’s general elections.

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http://en.rsf.org/paraguay-organized-crime-s-hand-seen-in-07-02-2013,44040.html