Huchi Lora, Marino Zapete, Mariala Álvarez and Edith Febles They have described as a defamation campaign the publication on social networks that indicates them as “special agents” of the United States Agency for Development (USAID).
According to this publication, which has been shared by other communicators and people linked to the political world, these Dominican journalists charged more than five thousand dollars per month.
In the publication, which was shared on a social networks account in the name of Johnny Latendel, in whose biography he is described as “digital editorialist and the Dominican radio, analyst-consultant”, it is not specified what the alleged work done For journalists.
“There has been a consensus of interested people and with a lot of money from my point of view, stolen money from the Dominican people, who has decided to set up a campaign and have clear goals to discredit a group of people for the reasons they have.” , he said Zapete Marino When interviewed in the “El Alarbol” program that is transmitted by news SIN.
While Huchi Lora and Mariala Álvarez They agreed that the information, shared in the social network of X, ancient Twitter, was published by a Dominican citizen from abroad, specifically in the United States.
Through a video, Lora indicated that he has never received money from media that are alien to those he has worked in his 58 years of exercise, in addition to “I have never had any relationship with him USAID And I don’t know any member of his staff. ”
He also explained that the information he manages about this defamation campaign arises from managers of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) linked to embezzlement files.
“Today we have information about the active participation of a few executives of the PLD and underline little, because there are few, some of which have judicial files due to large embezzlement to the state,” he said in a 5 -minute and 25 second video published in his channel of YouTube.
In the information he said that one of the uses given to that money was the acquisition of electronic means “which are using to amplify the published information of the tweet outside the territory.”
Similarly, the television producer and presenter Mariala Álvarez He pointed out that with this information she and the other communicators have been insulted, so they will take measures against those who have shared misinformation.
“We are going to take measures, the measures that are relevant, all those people who have echoed this campaign that our names have used,” he said in comment on his program “Tonight Mariala”
Although without abounding in details of actions to be taken and through the program “The day” and “The thing is”, Edith febles He referred to the publication indicating that he will dismantle it.
“This time I promise you that your assembly will be disassembled,” he said when reading a text linked to another case of misinformation and the spread of false information.
Zapete Marinowho has been invited to several programs to talk about this issue, also denied that he has charged in the USAID.
“I have never known where Usaid is, I have never had a link, I have never been in any NGO, I have never been in any project of that,” he said Tuesday in an interview in “The Alarm clock.”
Altagracia Salazar
The also journalist Altagracia Salazarpointed out as other people who supposedly charged the USAID, has refused to refer to the subject, ensuring that he will not give “five minutes of fame to a person who is talking without a source.”
College of journalists
The Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) and the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) called cease the dissemination of this type of speculation that affects the reputation of the communicators at the time of inviting to present the evidence that links them with this agency .
“We denounce and question the bad actions of officials, we demand quality public services, a transparent management of public funds and the defense of freedoms,” said Aurelio Henríquez, president of the CDP.
