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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