H. E. Alberto Fujimoro President of Peru Lima Peru Vienna, 8 April 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the killing of a radio journalist in northern Peru. We are informed that Isabel Chumpitaz, a radio journalist who championed peasant farmers’ rights in Peru, […]

H. E. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon President Mexico DF Mexico Viena, 17 July 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Benjamin Flores González, publisher and editor of the daily newspaper La Prensa, in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora State. We are informed that Mr. Flores was murdered outside […]

H. E. Carlos Menem President of Argentina Casa Rosada Buenos Aires Argentina Vienna, 28 January 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in over 90 countries, strongly condemns the killing of José Luis Cabezas, a photographer for the […]

H. E. Leonid Kuchma President Kiev Ukraine Vienna, 12 August 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Boris Derevyanko, editor-in-chief of Vechernya Odessa (Evening Odessa). On Monday, 11 August 1997, Mr. Derevyanko was shot twice point blank in the heart and stomach by an unidentified gunman near the Press […]