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Ecuadorian TV journalist nearly run over during live stand up

A video captured the moment when a taxi driver, without no apparent provocation, accelerated his vehicle toward journalist Belén Goncalves of Ecuavisa as she was preparing to report live on air about flooding in the Guayas province of Ecuador.

Goncalves told Fundamedios that before the incident, another driver passed near her team, shouting politically charged insults. Shortly after, the taxi driver, who had passengers in his vehicle, looked directly at her, accelerated, and as he did, the passengers also hurled insults.

Goncalves said she’s been the target of stigmatizing rhetoric during her coverage before, but this time, “it escalated.” She added, “It was fully intentional,” she told Fundamedios.

Read the original statement [in Spanish]