Det fattige mellemamerikanske land, Honduras, er et af verdens farligste for journalister, adskillige myrdes og ingen af mordene forventes senere at blive opklaret – farlig cocktail af narko og kriminalitet.
A Honduran journalist has requested asylum in the US embassy in Tegucigalpa after he said he and his family were repeatedly threatened and attacked, BBC online writes Wednesday.
Jose Chinchilla, who works for a radio station in El Progreso in northern Honduras, said two unidentified gunmen on motorcycles drove past his family home Friday night opening fire and injuring his 24-year-old son.
More than 20 journalists have been murdered over the past three years in Honduras. None of the crimes has been solved.
Journalists covering rising levels of crime and drug trafficking in Honduras are increasingly at risk.
Mr Chinchilla is the correspondent for radio station Radio Cadena Voces in the city of El Progreso. Journalists working for Radio Cadena Voces have been targeted before.
In October 2007, journalist and humorist Carlos Salgado was shot dead as he was leaving the Radio Cadena Voces’ offices in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
A month later, the station’s director, Dagoberto Rodriguez, left Honduras after receiving death threats.
