Así lo ha anunciado Periodistas sin Fronteras: Se ha descubierto que el servicio de inteligencia de la policía espiaba a José Quiroga, el líder del partido Podemos, el principal opositor a Morales, y cuatro gobernadores opuestos a Morales, entre otros políticos y a Juan José Espada, el director de noticias del canal de televisión privado Unitel.
RSF is dismayed by the revelation that the police department's intelligence service has been involved in unauthorised spying upon, among others, Juan José Espada, the news director of the privately-owned television channel Unitel. RSF hopes this revelation will not affect negatively the dialogue being held between the government and media that began after acts of violence were perpetrated against the press at the height of the political crisis of 2007 (see IFEX alert of 6 December 2007 and others).
RSF stresses that journalists must be able to enjoy all the guarantees of professional secrecy they need in order to do their job properly.
"We welcome the government's swift reaction to the news of this spying, in which sectors of the police appear to have overstepped the limits of their duties." RSF said. "The investigation into the spying on Espada must now establish whether the aim was to identify his sources. If this turns out to be the case, it would constitute a grave violation of press freedom, which depends on professional secrecy. We also want to know whether other journalists were spied on."
The organisation added: "These revelations should nonetheless not be used as an argument for reviving tension between the media and the political class or for polarising the media. There is a greater need than ever to pursue the dialogue initiated between the government and media representatives after last year's violent protests and to contribute to social peace, just as the dialogue between the central government and the opposition state governors must continue."
The domestic espionage scandal broke on 24 January 2008 when the privately-owned television channels Cadena A, ATB, PAT and Unitel and the national dailies "La Razón" and "El Nuevo Dia" all reported receiving a CD-ROM containing a dozen or so case files, about 40 memos and more than 400 photos revealing spying carried out by the national police intelligence service at the end of 2007, without any supervision from above.
A total of 18 politicians were among the targets of the spying, including former president Jorge Quiroga, who heads the opposition Podemos party, and four provincial governors opposed to President Evo Morales. They also included Senate speaker Oscar Ortiz and two parliamentary representatives of the ruling Movement to Socialism (MAS), Gustavo Torrico and Guido Guardia. And they included Espada, who was Unitel's joint news director in La Paz at the time although he is now based in Santa Cruz. Relations between Unitel and the government have been tense for some time.
Así que ahora RSF pide que se investigue si lo que buscaban los funcionarios eran las fuentes de del periodista, lo que "constituiría una grave infracción de la libertad de prensa", y si otros periodistas han sido espiados.
Lo mejor es que dice que "los funcionarios se extralimitaron en sus funciones". Jeje, un espionaje de este nivel no lo hacen tres o cuatro funcionarios porque les apetezca llenar sus horas libres, sobre todo porque todos (ya es casualidad) son personas opositoras a Morales.
Hmm, el socialismo del siglo XXI tiene métodos del periodo stalinista puro... Qué vergüenza.
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