[PEN-L:4810] MEXICAN MEDIA UNDER ATTACK,Apr.24 (fwd)

[D Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

> Subject: MEXICAN MEDIA UNDER ATTACK
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> URGENT PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE
> FORWARD, PUBLISH, PROMOTE
> ONLINE NEWS SERVICE
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>  ORDERS OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO LIE AND SHUT DOWN
> THE MEXICAN RADIO
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> POLITICAL ARCHIVE, Carlos Ramirez, El Financiero pg. 23, April 23,
> 1995 Mexico City
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> "Jesus Gonzales Schmall, distinguished former PAN member and
> member of the Democratic Forum group, denounced it.
>
> On Friday he was prevented from entering the studio of the Formula
> radio station to do his daily commentary because he refused to
> carry out the assignment given by the owner, Rogerio Azcarraga,
> to attack and criticize Bishop Samuel Ruiz, whom the government
> wants to make seem like he was the person responsible for the
> mobilization of thousands of Zapatista indigenous into the
> dialogue zone.
>
> The instructions from the Secretary of the Interior, said Gonzales
> Schmall who was told about them by Azcarraga, were to criticize
> the National Commission of Mediation (CONAI) which is led by
> Bishop Ruiz, which they want to make responsible for the
> indigenous' mobilization.  If it is true that all private radio
> stations have the right to define how they are going to present
> the information that they are going to transmit, in the way that
> they judge as the best, then the basic point of the conflict is
> again the two-sidedness of the government.  If the government has
> proof that Bishop Samuel Ruiz was playing with a rigged deck, then
> the best thing would have been to denounce him.  But by using
> secret pressures and the manipulation of information, the Zedillo
> government is showing its political unwillingness to conduct a
> dignified negotiation for peace in Chiapas.  And as the dialogue
> should be carried out under the guises of the law, then the
> Zedillo government could be accused of not fulfilling or of
> violating a law.  The dirty game against Bishop Samuel Ruiz is
> more evidence of the zigzagging game of the Zedillo
> government..."
>
> LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Pg.2, April 23, 1995, Mexico City
>
> Chiapas and the Electronic Media
>
> "Clearly with the denouncement made public on last Friday, by the
> former PAN leader Jesus Gonzales Schmall, with regard to the
> Secretary of the Interior having given orders to radio stations
> that they promote reports directed at criticizing the work of the
> National Commission of Mediation in the process of the dialogue
> between the Federal Government and the EZLN, we find ourselves
> faced with an act capable of seriously eroding the right to freely
> report which all communication media in the Republic should
> have..."
>
>
> Note Bene: The journalist Carlos Ramirez is one of the most read,
> serious, and documented political columnists from Mexico.
> Recently he has received death threats.  The Mexican experience is
> that said threats are almost always carried out. For this reason
> solidarity with his work and profession is necessary and urgent.
> Fax messages to El Financiero 011-525-255-1799 in Mexico City.
>
> Posted by Karin OPYCPLI
>
> Translated by Cindy Arnold, National Commission for Democracy in
> Mexico
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