NewsWhore
08-03-2011, 04:10 PM
The murder of journalist Jose Silvestre, a.k.a. "Gajo", whose body was found yesterday with signs of torture, barefoot and with three bullet wounds after being kidnapped, could be related to the constant revelations that the reporter filed on cases linked to drug trafficking. His relatives fear that his death might be connected to revelations about drug trafficking and its links to powerful sectors in his TV program, "La voz de la verdad" (The Hour of Truth), and in a magazine of the same name.
Silvestre was kidnapped yesterday morning when he was on his way to San Pedro de Macoris to attend a hearing about a suit by La Romana prosecutor Jose Polanco Ramirez, who had sued him for defamation and libel after the journalist had talked about alleged relationships between the prosecutor and drug trafficking cases. According to several versions picked up by the authorities, the reporter was kidnapped near his home, at about 7:45 in the morning, as he was getting into his SUV at the J&A Hotel, located at the intersection of Fray Juan de Utrera and Gaston F. Deligne streets, by four men who beat him and then shot him in the stomach. His body was found several hours later near a water tank in El Penon on the La Romana to San Pedro de Macoris highway. Some 10 "eyewitnesses" have been detained in connection with the death.
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Silvestre was kidnapped yesterday morning when he was on his way to San Pedro de Macoris to attend a hearing about a suit by La Romana prosecutor Jose Polanco Ramirez, who had sued him for defamation and libel after the journalist had talked about alleged relationships between the prosecutor and drug trafficking cases. According to several versions picked up by the authorities, the reporter was kidnapped near his home, at about 7:45 in the morning, as he was getting into his SUV at the J&A Hotel, located at the intersection of Fray Juan de Utrera and Gaston F. Deligne streets, by four men who beat him and then shot him in the stomach. His body was found several hours later near a water tank in El Penon on the La Romana to San Pedro de Macoris highway. Some 10 "eyewitnesses" have been detained in connection with the death.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)