Radio journalist slain in Brazil
Unknown gunmen shot and killed a radio journalist last September 1 in Tabatinga, a municipality in Amazonas, Brazil, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported.
Valderlei Canuto Leandro, 32, was shot by unidentified men aboard a motorcycle in Tabatinga on Thursday night, according to local press reports.
His brother Alderli Canuto told CPJ that Canuto was returning from the local marketplace, a block away from his home when he was slain.
No suspect has been identified for the killing in the preliminary investigation, but the authorities are looking into his work as the possible motive, according to Sávio Pinzon, police chief of Manaus, a city in northern Brazil.
Some reports added that the journalist filed last May a complaint against Tabatinga Mayor Samuel Benerguy stating that “he had received death threats from the mayor for reporting on corruption in the municipality.”
Mayor Benerguy immediately denied any involvement in Canuto’s killing and the death threats against the journalist in an article posted on Blog Da Floresta, a local blog ran by Brazilian journalists Orlando Farias and Mario Dantas.
Canuto was famous for his criticism of local government officials on the program “Sinal Verde” (Green Signal) on Radio Frontera, a radio station located at the three-border region between Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. The journalist was also a president of a local taxi union in Brazil.
CPJ reported that four other journalists, aside from Canuto, were murdered this year including Edinaldo Filgueira of Jornal o Serrano, Auro Ida of Olhar Direto and Midianews, Valério Nascimento of Panorama Geral, and Luciano Leitão Pedrosa of TV Vitória and Radio Metropolitana FM. (CPJ/IFEX)
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