By Ingrid Bachmann
Karol Cabrera, a controversial TV and radio host who defended the coup that forced out President Manuel Zelaya last June, won asylum for herself and her two children in Canada, El Tiempo and La Prensa report. (See this Miami Herald article in English.)
The journalist had refused to leave a military hospital in Tegucigalpa for 100 days after suffering two attacks in three months. Her pregnant daughter was killed in the first attack.
Cabrera says her first priority is to learn English and French and try to restart her journalism career. "It's like a new opportunity, the beginning of a new and exciting life for me and my children,” she said, quoted by The Miami Herald.
Six journalists and a radio host have been killed in Honduras since March 1, and the crimes remain unsolved, EFE adds. The government insists that the killings are unrelated to the victims’ profession.
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.
