Peruvian political cartoonist Carlos Tovar Samanez receives death threats
April 28, 2020 2:10 PM ET
On April 21, 2020, Carlos Tovar Samanez published a cartoon lampooning Alan García, a former Peruvian president who committed suicide last year.
A few hours later, he received an email, which he forwarded to CPJ, saying: “This is the end of the line, Carlos Tovar,” and, “We are going to look for you and find you and we will make you eat dust.”
Tovar told CPJ via messaging app that the email came from someone named “José Santos,” whom he does not know.
Tovar told CPJ that he also received several menacing messages on social media, including an April 22 tweet from Salvador Heresi, a former justice minister with the current government, who wrote: “The threats against you are well-deserved even if they beat you up.”
More:
https://cpj.org/2020/04/peruvian-political-cartoonist-carlos-tovar-samanez-1.php
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Alan García
(Learned from a journalist who worked in South America that Alan Garcia was often called
"Two Breakfasts" by Peruvian people.)
Alan Garcia death: Peru's former president dies after shooting himself as police arrest him
Populist firebrand had repeatedly denied wrongdoing: 'Others might sell out, not me'
Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93
Wednesday 17 April 2019 17:44
Peru’s former president has died after shooting himself in the head as police officers arrived at his home to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation, his family have said.
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“Others might sell out, not me,” Garcia said in broadcast comments on Tuesday, repeating a phrase he has used frequently as his political foes became ensnared in the Odebrecht investigation.
Interior minister Carlos Moran said at a news conference before Garcia died the former president had told police he needed to call his attorney after they arrived at his home in Lima to arrest him.
“He entered his room and closed the door behind him,” Mr Moran said. “Within a few minutes, a shot from a firearm was heard, and police forcibly entered the room and found Mr Garcia sitting with a wound in his head.”
Last year, Garcia asked Uruguay for political asylum after he was banned from leaving the country to keep him from fleeing or obstructing the investigation. Uruguay rejected the request.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alan-garcia-dead-peru-president-shoot-himself-police-arrest-corruption-latest-update-a8874806.html
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Peruvian police fire on unarmed indigenous tribes' oil and gas protest
This article is more than 10 years old
Both sides report at least 30 deaths and many more injured
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, and agencies
@rorycarroll72
Fri 5 Jun 2009 18.20 EDTFirst published on Fri 5 Jun 2009 18.20 EDT
Indigenous tribes who are protesting about oil and gas projects in the Amazon clashed with Peruvian security forces on Friday, leaving dozens dead and injured.
The bloodshed broke out before dawn when police tried to lift a road blockade by thousands of Awajun and Wambis Indians near Bagua in the remote province of Utcubamba, 870 miles north of the capital Lima.
Both sides reported at least 30 deaths - including nine police - and dozens wounded. Each blamed the other for the mayhem.
Police in helicopters fired live rounds at peaceful protestors and dropped tear gas canisters, killing 22 protestors, indigenous leader Alberto Pizango told reporters in the capital Lima. "I hold the government of President Alan García responsible for ordering this genocide."
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The advocacy group Amazon Watch backed the indigenous version of events. "Eyewitnesses report that police attacked from both sides firing real bullets into the crowd as people fled into the hills. As the unarmed demonstrators were killed and injured, some wrestled the police and took away their guns and fought back in self-defence, resulting in the deaths of several police officers."
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/05/amazon-tribes-police-protest-deaths
