Dominican Republic
Drug traffickers threaten journalistPosted Mar 25 2007
Manuel Vega, producer of “Atacando,” a program broadcast by the privately owned TV station Canal 10-Varo Visión and radio 95.5 FM he has received several anonymous death threats. One threat, pressured Vega to stop featuring stories on drug trafficking or he would be set on fire. Vega thinks the calls are coming from a Dominican incarcerated in the United States on drug trafficking charges. Vega is angered to the “indifference” of the authorities and said to Reporters Without Borders that he did not trust the regional police, which was “contaminated” by drug trafficking.