3 f. “The only protection that [Marta Colomina] ha[s] received, as a result of the precautionary measures, came from the Mayor of the Chacao Municipality, who contributed two motorized policemen, taking turns every forty-eight hours to follow her on motorcycle when [she] travel[s] in [her] car, except in the morning when [she] go[es] to the [television] channel from 5 to 7 a.m., when the escort on duty drives [her] car. The monitoring obligation ceases when [she] arrive[s] home and is only carried out when [she is] performing her work-related duties; the rest of the time, when [she is] at home or going anywhere else, [she has] no protection of any type”; and g. On June 28, 2003, the Minister of Infrastructure, Diosdado Cabello, made the following statement to the newspaper “El Universal”, with regard to the June 27 attack on the journalists: [W]hat is happening is that there are people who are losing their audience, no one watches them or listens to them, who say anything because of the vial of poison that they take each morning, and who need to call attention to themselves in some way, that is what is happening. Even though this lady, or any other person, tells me that they have suffered an attack on their life, once and for all, I would like it to be known that I do not believe it (…) I underline these hypotheses, I put them in bold type, in inverted commas or highlighted, precisely because, for some time now, I have ceased to believe in anything, in these reports that ‘I was assaulted’, ‘they fired at my car’, always blaming the Government. 3. The additional information provided by the Commission in its request for provisional measures, that: a. It has been verified that, during 2002, “there has been a progressive and significant increase in the threats and attacks against journalists and, particularly, against those who cover political events and gatherings. During its on-site visit last May, the Commission was informed that journalists were the direct target of attacks and harassment. The general context of the situation reigning in Venezuela has generated a climate of continual violence and threat against freedom of expression and, particularly, against the safety of journalists, cameramen, photographers and other media employees;” b. To date, the State has not produced anyone who has been detained for the events that gave rise to the seven precautionary measures adopted by the Commission during 2002. Nor has Venezuela prosecuted anyone for the events that gave rise to the request for provisional measures adopted by the Court on November 27 in the case of the RCTV employees; and c. The fact that the attack of June 27, 2003, against the life of Marta Colomina and Liliana Velásquez failed, shows that journalists are still in a situation of urgent need and imminent danger. 4. The note of July 24, 2003, of the Inter-American Commission, in which it presented additional information that “during the night of July 21, 2003, a soundbox with pamphlets against [Marta] Colomina exploded, a block away from the radio station where she works.” CONSIDERING: