(Miami) 'El Nuevo Herald' Reporter Flees Colombia After 'Threats' From President

Source: Editor and Publisher

'El Nuevo Herald' Reporter Flees Colombia After 'Threats' From President

By Mark Fitzgerald

Published: October 05, 2007 11:15 AM ET

CHICAGO Gonzalo Guillen, a reporter for The Miami Herald's Spanish-language daily El Nuevo Herald, has fled Colombia after President Alvaro Uribe accused him of ghost-writing a book linking the president to the notorious drug dealer Pablo Escobar, a Colombian free-press group said Friday.

The Bogota-based Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP for its initials in Spanish) said Guillen had left the country "fearing for his life due to threats previously received." FLIP said Guillen first received death threats in May, and had been under "official state protection."

His situation grew more dangerous, the group said, when in recent days Uribe accused him of helping the former mistress of Escobar write a book alleging the president, then a governor of a province, had received money for his political campaigns from the drug dealer. The book, by Virginia Vallejo, is called "Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar."

Guillen, in published reports, had denied a role in writing the book.

On Monday, Uribe in a radio interview said Guillen "had dedicated himself to a journalistic career of lies and slander," -- remarks convinced Guillen it was time to leave the country, FLIP said.




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.. from Knight Ridder that Nuevo Herald was busted for photo shopping a front page picture that depicted Cuban police standing by hookers soliciting customers without doing anything, and an accompanying article (by Cuba phobic propagandist Oscar Corral) about Cuba's "sexual tourism industry"?

Its a fucking exile rag of the worst kind, not even fit for fish wrap.

I decided to see if I could find anything on the internetS:

Not The Only Ethical Breach



Days before Schneider’s photograph became a problem for the Observer, editors at el Nuevo Herald manipulated two separate photographs and combined them into one fake picture to make it appear that police in Cuba were ignoring prostitution. The caption published with the fake photograph reads, “The government has proven incapable of confronting the dramatic phenomenon of prostitution.” The Spanish-language newspaper is well known to Florida readers for its rather transparent anti-Castro editorial agenda.

Not The Only Ethical Breach

Days before Schneider’s photograph became a problem for the Observer, editors at el Nuevo Herald manipulated two separate photographs and combined them into one fake picture to make it appear that police in Cuba were ignoring prostitution. The caption published with the fake photograph reads, “The government has proven incapable of confronting the dramatic phenomenon of prostitution.” The Spanish-language newspaper is well known to Florida readers for its rather transparent anti-Castro editorial agenda.
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The Associated Press also had something to say about the use of Moore’s AP photograph in the el Nuevo Herald “montage.” “We informed el Nuevo Herald of our extreme displeasure that they had used an AP image in that fashion,” AP's Santiago Lyon said today.

“The (Miami) photo is a lie,” said John Long, NPPA’s chairperson of its Ethics & Standards Committee who is also a long-time photojournalist and picture editor for The Hartford Courant and a frequent author of journalism ethical commentaries. “If a documentary photo looks real, in the context of news, it better be real. No amount of captioning can make a visual lie go away. If you respect the news photo as much as you respect the written word, you would never try to explain away a visual lie. If it looks real, the context of news, it better be real.
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http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/08/ethics.html

Both papers were the conduits for propaganda fabrications by Elliot Abrams, Frank Calzone, and John Negroponte during the Raygun/Bush41 regimes, intended for domestic US consumption - which is (or was) against the law - against the Sandinista and other leftist L.A. governments and movements.


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BTW, Nuevo/Miami Herald's Latin America reporter, Oscar Corral, who constantly rails against and fabricates stories about Cuba's so-called sexual tourism and prostitution was himself busted for soliciting a prostitute in Miami in August.

Gotta love those RW hypoctites.

Reporter Leaving Colombia, Cites Threats
By TOBY MUSE – 23 hours ago

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A freelance reporter for The Miami Herald's Spanish language newspaper said Friday he is leaving Colombia because of several threats he's received after being criticized by Colombia's president.

Gonzalo Guillen told The Associated Press he was preparing to depart Saturday after receiving 24 death threats in 48 hours.

President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday alleged that the 55-year-old journalist was the ghostwriter of a book by a former mistress of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar that claimed Uribe was a friend of the Medellin cocaine cartel.

"Behind this lady is Gonzalo Guillen who has dedicated his journalistic career to infamy and lies," said the president on local radio, who has repeatedly denied any ties to Escobar.

Guillen said he had no connection to "Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar," written by former Escobar mistress Virginia Vallejo. "I did not write the book, nor have I read the book," he said.

Repeated calls to the president's press secretary, Cesar Mauricio Velasquez, were not returned.

El Nuevo Herald Executive Editor Humberto Castello said the threats were from paramilitaries, illegal far-right militias that have backed the government's tough anti-guerrilla policies.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFGPh8sn2sr8hEIP9DfYZOrhHMLAD8S3FAUO0