Colombia - “Warning” for Bogotá TV reporter doing story on paramilitaries

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the threatening phone call received on 13 July by Paul Bacares, a journalist with the public TV station Bogotá Canal Capital who is currently preparing a report on Colombia's paramilitaries. The three-minute call, a recording of which can be heard online, consists of the sounds of automatic weapons fire against a musical background. Soundtrack “The paramilitaries, the most likely authors of this ‘warning,' are still the biggest source of danger (...)

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