Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina a victim of violence he denounced - Committee to Protect Journalists

Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina a victim of violence he denounced - Committee to Protect Journalists

Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina Sotomayor did not hold back in his last TV news broadcast before he was shot dead this year. Addressing the viewers of Cadena Sur, his TV and radio station in the south-central city of Ica, Medina called local authorities “scoundrels” for buying defective garbage trucks. He criticized cost overruns for a new sports arena. And he called into question a police chief’s behavior after video emerged of a woman sippin…