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NewsWhore
03-31-2009, 05:20 PM
El Caribe reports that Puerto Plata Court of Appeals prosecutor Felix Alvarez Rivera recently contacted one of its journalists, Felivia Mejia to ask her how she had obtained a prosecutor report about police complicity with drug trafficking in the city. The newspaper's editor Manuel Quiroz said that the call sought to intimidate the journalist and induce self-censorship. "The prosecutor told the journalist that she would be visited by a prosecutor for questioning," said Quiroz, adding that the newspaper would resist any threat to press freedom, which is guaranteed by the Constitution. El Caribe reported on the case of 32 cops in Puerto Plata and a report prepared by the Police investigative commission that presented transcripts of incriminating cell phone conversations between the cops and National Drug Control Department agents and drug dealers.

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