Targeted attacks on helpless media amid chaos in Bolivia

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Bolivian society in its entirety to respect and ensure respect for the work of the media, which have been under increasing attack since the end of the election campaign and now President Evo Morales’ departure into exile. Police and demonstrators have attacked reporters, while radio and TV stations have been trashed and forced to suspend operations Intimidation, harassment, threats, physical violence, theft of equipment, ransacking of media premises and censorship of radio and TV stations – such has been the fate of the Bolivian media as the

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