h) No official of the police force of the Libertador Municipality of the Capital District, of the DISIP, of the Venezuela Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or other officials or agents of the State of Venezuelan has invited him to plan his personal protection in compliance with the provisional measures ordered by the Court. i) He has not been called by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to any working meeting or to give testimony with regard to the investigations into the complaints of the threats and attacks he has suffered. 15. The testimony of Luisiana Ríos, given to the said public hearing, which is summarized as follows: a) She has a degree in journalism, and is a reporter for Radio Caracas Televisión in Venezuela and she covered news relating to the President of the Republic, Hugo Chávez. “It was at the beginning of 2002, on January 20, that [she] receive[d] the first violent attack, this was in the Cajigal Observatory, a military installation where the President of the Republic was going to broadcast a radio program as he does every Sunday and it was [her] job to cover that news item.” She stated that, when she arrived “they recognized [her] and began to shout [at them], to hit the car window, to call [them] ‘palangristas’, [which] is the worst insult that a journalist can receive, because [palangristas] are journalists [who] are paid to provide false information; they said [they were] anti-patriotic, that [they should tell] the truth […]”. b) In view of the situation, she tried “to ask the guards for help but they did not let [her] enter; meanwhile the people shouted [at her], hit [her], struck [her], there were about fifty people, […] and they began to shout ‘you won’t get in’ (‘no pasarás’) and they all shouted in unison ‘you won’t get in, you won’t get in, because you must tell the truth.’” She added that she “begged […] the Honor Guard officer to let [her] in, because, otherwise, they were going to kill [her] there. In view of [her] desperation […] they allowed [her] to go in, […] she spoke to the person responsible for security and he told [her] that […] the President was going to walk by that area [and] he recommended that [she] leave, because they could not provide [her] with security. [From where she was, she] saw the press car that […] they were hitting, they were throwing stones at it, they were kicking the tires and […] [she] was able to leave the area, and it was after that when the Commission granted [her] the precautionary measures and, despite this, the attacks continued.” c) On April 13, on the occasion of “the return of the Government of President Chávez […] [they] were very frightened because […] there were shots, […they] were asked to vacate the place immediately because they were going to take back the Palace and they said that they were going to shell it […]. [The Palace] had been taken by soldiers who were shooting and there was an exchange of shots between the Government supporters and the soldiers who were inside the President’s Palace, […] [when she could finally] flee[, the] groups recognized [her] and began [to shout] ‘there goes Luisiana Ríos kill her, grab her, you won’t escape, traitor, coupist, anti-patriotic’ […].”

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