'Freedom of speech and justice are at risk'
"There is no democracy without freedom of expression and without justice", so said political analyst Jose Isabel Blandon. Blandon's statements come after...
"There is no democracy without freedom of expression and without justice", so said political analyst Jose Isabel Blandon. Blandon's statements come after...
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"There is no democracy without freedom of expression and without justice", so said political analyst Jose Isabel Blandon.
Blandon's statements come after the journalist Alvaro Alvarado denounced the existence of an audio which states that he was fired from Medcom.
He said the enemies of democracy do not tolerate criticism and the price a person pays for defending freedom of expression is very small compared to the need of that freedom.
"The important thing is not that freedom of expression and justice are at risk, but people understand the need of it, since we have not made much progress", he stressed.
He clarified that everything is running his supposed Medcom output is false.
"I have a working relationship with Medcom has not changed. What happens is that they have generated news that is not true and can not work on false information," he added.
Blandon said that you must pay attention to the defense of freedom of expression, because society is being restricted their rights.
The presenter and journalist Alvaro Alvarado said that a new audio is in the streets saying they had already launched the channel.
"We'll see who wins this time. Know that there is a God up there," he wrote the reporter on his Twitter account.
Alvarado had already warned at the time that an audio circulate affecting his image, so he questioned where campaign "If you are silent, you are silent," which was used by some media during the administration of Ricardo Martinelli was.
"Where was this claim that used in times of Martinelli, 'If I shut up, you shut up', I see that was, a slogan and not an ideal," said social communicator.
For the secretary general of the Union of Journalists of Panama, Philemon Medina, the focal point is the criticism made to the public administration of President Juan Carlos Varela, at the slowness to address social, legal, and that lead to cases of corruption.
"It should raise all alerts of the journalists' associations, it is evident that there must be a hidden agenda and do not know the rest of society, which is not linked to the media," said the journalist.
Medina believes that there is a degree of involvement in the issue of freedom of expression, because if you're questioning, pointing or foisting some kind of accusation, it is right that the evidence is presented, however, in Panama the opposite is true, first it is condemned and after tests are sought.
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As for the campaign "If we are silent, you are silent", reported in the media in the past administration, he said he was nothing more than a slogan to defend themselves and not to journalists.
For his part, Mauro Zúñiga, doctor and leader, said that should do some research on what is denouncing the journalist Alvarado.
"In Panama there is no freedom of expression. There is a number of years," he added.
Zuniga pointed out that he has been censured by the newspaper and that is called restricting freedom of expression.
"I do not understand how that environment is presented as the champion at the national and international level that defends freedom of expression and have censured me," he said.
Meanwhile, Blanca Gomez, president of the National Association of Journalists (Conape), said he is following up the case of Alvaro Alvarado since December, when it all started.
He said a meeting will go to Alvarado and present your case, because you have not made him known in the Conape.
"Here we are not to sponsor one side or the other, we are based on a professional, honest and transparent work," said Gomez.
He added that if any officer does not agree with this, they will tell the truth.
He recalled that one of the most recent cases that affected the freedom of expression was that of journalist Julio Miller, who, according to Gomez, they did defend.
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