An Argentine journalist has denounced threats and censorship while presenting his book “The Business of Human Rights” in the northeastern province of Chaco, which is covered in three chapters of the book.
Luis Gasulla, author of the book that investigates cases of corruption in human rights organizations, said a radio interview was not broadcast due to a suspicious signal cut, while the local prosecutor’s office forbid the local bookstore from selling copies of his book. Two people mentioned in the book were unable to make it to the presentation because of threats they received while leaving their houses.
Social leaders interrupted a radio interview with Gasulla on the radio station Resistencia and threatened the journalist on the air on Friday, March 22, said the newspaper La Nación.
The same day, the show’s producer Antonio Guinter fired the interviewer, Roberto Espinoza, said the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA).
FOPEA condemned the firing of Espinoza as well as two other firings. “Even though the firings happened under different circumstances, FOPEA understands that there is a common link in the lack of labor guarantees so that journalists can exercise their work in liberty and without suffering reprisals that, as in these cases, end with their firings,” said the organization in a press release.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
