Peru
Second Peruvian journalist killed this monthPosted Sep 21 2011
A Peruvian TV journalist was gunned down outside his home Wednesday by an unidentified man on a motorbike, according to the Lima-based Press and Society Institute (IPYS), according to an International Press Institute (IPI) article
Director and host of BTV Channel 45’s “Sin Fronteras,” José Oquendo Reyes, is the second journalist murdered in less than two weeks and the third to be killed in Peru this year. All three were provincial reporters.
Mr. Oquendo was shot five times in the province of Chincha, a coastal town south of Lima. His son drove him to a local hospital, but Mr. Oquendo died before he could receive treatment, according to the IPI article .
In an article by El Nuevo Herald, a U.S. Spanish daily that covers the U.S. and various Latin American countries, the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) said that Mr. Oquendo had denounced alleged corruption practices of the mayor of Chincha, Lucio Juárez Ochoa.
However, according to IPI, the journalist’s widow, Marina Juárez, told IPYS that her husband had not received any death threats leading up to his murder. This differs from the murder of TV journalist Pedro Flores Silva who was shot dead only eight days before in Nuevo Chimbote of northern Peru.
José Taysaco de la Cruz, Chincha’s Chief of Police, said that a suspect has been detained for the murder of Mr. Oquendo.