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UNESCO chief condemns murder of Honduran journalist

UNESCO chief condemns murder of Honduran journalist

UNESCO head Koïchiro Matsuura
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.

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.