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IAPA
Midyear Meeting
Casa de Campo
Dominican Republic
March 18, 2002
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HONDURAS
There is a general perception that the new government, which took office at
the end of January, will make fewer efforts to control the press, including
media outlets and journalists. However, threats and legal matters still restrict
journalists in their work.
The deputy of the left-wing party Democratic Unification, Cesar Ham, proposed
to the National Congress that it regulate press freedom and control journalists
and media outlets. The deputy's proposal is based on a recent case in which
the media published news that the U.S. Embassy had suspended the visas of three
well-known business executives.
There are also threats from the government side, such as one by the former head
of the government accounting office, Vera Rubí, against journalist Sandra
Maribel Sánchez after she publicized a recording of a telephone conversation
between Rubí and former Supreme Court Justice, Oscar Armando Avila, who
died in an airplane accident. In the conversation they discussed legal matters
in an unprofessional way.
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