UNESCO chief condemns murder of Honduran journalist
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the assassination of a Honduran television journalist, who had reported on coffee and cattle smuggling and criticized a cyanide spill.
“I condemn the cowardly assassination of Germán Antonio Rivas, a reporter and owner of the local Corporación Maya Visión television station, who was already the target of an assassination attempt in February this year,” Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura said in a statement released at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Mr. Rivas was targeted in February shortly after reporting on coffee and cattle smuggling to Guatemala. He had also criticized a cyanide spill into the Lara River in the Central American country by the Minerales de Occidente mining company, which was fined €140,000 (euros) for the spill.