After learning that journalists from ‘Fourth power’ they were kidnapped by the peasant patrols of the Chadín district, in Cajamarca, when they were conducting investigations into the case of the president’s sister-in-law peter castleYenifer Paredes, América TV issued a statement and detailed everything that happened.
MIRA: Fourth Power team was kidnapped by peasant patrols when investigating the case of Yenifer Paredes
“On the followingnoon of Wednesday, July 6, a team from the Cuarto Poder program made up of reporter Eduardo Quispe, cameraman Elmer Valdiviezo, and a driver from the area, was kidnapped by members of the peasant patrols of the Chadín district, Chota province, in the Cajamarca region.states the statement.
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It was added that the ronderos took away their cameras and cell phones, and forced them to apologize on national television for the report on the First Lady’s sister broadcast on Cuarto Poder last Sunday. “If that did not happen, they were warned that their lives were at risk”adds America TV.
“Given this situation, and to protect the integrity of the kidnapped people, the programming of América TV was interrupted so that the reporter Eduardo Quispe read a statement whose content was dictated by the patrolmen, who, as we said, forced him to read. They would only be released if this requirement was met, which happened moments following the broadcast.specified the television house.
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América Televisión concluded by noting that “condemns this fact that represents a serious attack on the press and its duty to investigate and report on issues of public interest and that involves the highest authorities in the country”.
The case
The journalist from Cuarto Poder, Eduardo Quispe, gave a message this Wednesday in which he claimed to have been intervened by the peasant patrols of the Chadín district, in Cajamarca, when he was conducting investigations into the case of President Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes.
During his brief speech, the reporter pointed out that he and his research team were in the La Palma community talking with the peasant patrols following being intercepted by them while they were taking a statement from one of the residents.
“We are in the La Palma community in the Chadín district. We find ourselves in dialogue with the peasant patrols of Chadin, who represent the interests and needs of their people. We were intervened when statements were taken from people who do not respond culturally, asking them questions regarding the Yenifer Paredes case, who is charged by the National Prosecutor’s Office “he stated.
Next, the journalist pointed out that said accusation made by the Public Ministry would be false, for which he emphasized that Fourth Power, as a media outlet, does not have the purpose of harming the Government of the day.
“As a media outlet, which represents the Fourth Estate, it is a false accusation, so we rectify ourselves as the press not to harm the central government or their families. In this sense, our commitment as the press, we ratify some facts and apologize to the peasant patrols of the Chadín district, and at the national level, for not acting according to the truth”held.
“At the scene of the events we have been able to corroborate that there are critical needs to be met in water, drainage, education… (unintelligible)”he added.
