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Judi Lynn

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1. This journalist has reached the level of prominence which marks him as Macri's feared enemy.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 05:46 PM
Sep 2017

From now on, he must be intensely watchful for his own security.

Fascists despise truth-tellers. Just as the numerous dead journalists buried all over Colombia, whose deaths trained the cautious other journalists to start self-editing for survival.

One of Colombia's very best journalists, Hollman Morris, who exposed false positives had to hire bodyguards for himself and his family, and send his daughter to school in a bullet-proof car. His brother, another journalist, was also living under the gun until Uribe finally ran out of luck and the Senate refused to allow him to run for many more terms.

Sounds so much as if Roberto Navarro has crossed into that terrain possibly before anyone could guess. Probably the right-wing has been hating him a very long time.

There were so many strong, principled people on the "enemy" death lists during the Dirty War, sending many into exile, journalists, even activists singers, writers, etc. To stay, under their hateful gaze does mean living with a daily threat.

One has to admire these strong people who live for their beliefs, and dare to speak about it, even when it means the worst can happen because of their courage.

Sandensea, wasn't there once a journalist in Argentina who moved to Uruguay, and continued to do his work from there, knowing it would all be heard in Argentina, after all? I can't remember his name, or his time.

Hope Roberto Navarro can be as effective as he hopes through El Destape.

Thank you.

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