Senator “Jota Pe” Hernández.
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Caracol Radio and Grupo Prisa asked Green Party senator Jonathan Ferney Pulido Hernández, known as “Jota Pe” Hernández, to stop the “constant attacks that he has uttered or motivated through social networks” against journalist Orlando Villar Forero, who In two journalistic publications he has referred to the presence of Hernández at the inauguration of the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele.
Villar Forero points out, among other things, that the senator was not invited by President Bukele to his inauguration, as he stated in his WhatsApp broadcast lists, but in reality he asked the deputy of El Salvador, Cristian Guevara, to do so. invited to the event.
“Someone told me that there was a senator from Colombia who wanted to go to the inauguration and I told him I would be happy to. As there were so many delegations from all countries wanting to attend, they were happy to. I had a trip organized with people from the diaspora, and I told him that he could gladly accompany that delegation,” said Deputy Guevara in an interview for Caracol Radio.
Senator Hernández considers that the journalist and the radio network “are trying to damage my image and reputation with false and insulting accusations” and indicates that the communicator has made “a dirty and harmful attack.”
“Yes, I was invited to the presidential inauguration of Nayib Bukele. I received the invitation digitally from the deputy Cristian Guevara,” said “Jota Pe” on June 5, without warning that he was not invited by Bukele and his wife, Gabriela de Bukele, as he had said on WhatsApp.
In his first publication on the matter, Villar indicates that official sources “warned that (Jota Pe) had taken images of the presidential command transmission, which have copyright, and published them on his social networks as if he had taken them during his permanence in the event.”
In their statement, Caracol Radio and the Prisa Group point out that “in response to the senator’s publications, in which he mentions the name and photograph of the Caracol Radio journalist, through his social networks he has been receiving threats against his life and personal attacks, which constitutes, in addition to a risk to their safety, a form of violence and intimidation.”
In addition, they ask for special vigilance from the Ombudsman’s Office, the Foundation for Freedom of the Press, the Ethics Commission of the Senate of the Republic and the Ethics Commission of the Green Party.
“Caracol Radio supports the journalistic work carried out by Orlando Villar and is sure of the veracity and rigor with which the recent publications were made that mention Senator Hernández and his trip to El Salvador on the occasion of the inauguration of Nayi Bukele in the Presidency. of that nation. However, in accordance with the law, the company is attentive to the development of the legal resources that the congressman announces, in relation to said publications.”
Senator Hernández says that he has also received death threats after what was published on Caracol Radio. “He has not wanted to retract it. That irresponsibility carries threats. “I have already started a legal process so that Caracol Radio and Orlando Villar retract what they said because it is false,” said “Jota Pe” in a video he published on Sunday, June 9.
The radio station says that “it keeps its channels open to publish the statements that the congressman wants to give in this regard, since in the development of this specific work he has been contacted, not once, but at least three times, by journalists from Caracol Radio ”.
