DIARIO - MEP boycotting - Contact the Inter Amer Press Assoc

[klaasend]

From what Jossy seemed to be saying on Dana's program Monday night (04/09/2007), a way to help Jossy with the MEP government-imposed boycott against Diario, is to contact:

Inter American Press Association:

Jules Dubois Building
1801 S.W. 3rd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33129
Tel: (305) 634-2465
Fax: (305) 635-2272

http://www.sipiapa.org/default.cfm

(Contact Us gives you an email form.)

Here is my email to them:

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Jossy Mansur's Aruba newspaper, Diario, is subject of a boycott imposed by the Prime Minister of Aruba and the MEP party.

Diario has been reporting numerous scandals involving various government ministers. Also, he is the only person of importance on Aruba who has called for a proper investigation of the Natalee Holloway case.

For more information, go here:

http://www.scaredmonkeys.net/viewtopic.php?t=188&start=400

(Scroll down to the 3rd and 4th post.)

Since when does a so-called democratically-elected government suppress the press? PLEASE PUBLICIZE this - or whatever your association can do.

Thank you.

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The SM link is to Page 21 of the M&C thread; the two posts are Amigoe's article about the boycott, and Jossy's response from another web site.

[msmarple]

Some background on the Boycott Diario situation.

Jossy Mansur has been the only person of importance on Aruba who has been on record as trying to help Natalee's family and pressing for a real investigation into what happened to her. He was a frequent (remote hook-up) guest on the TV talk shows when the case was still in the news.

Here is a post "announcing" the MEP boycott of Diario.

I posted this on the LCD Friday 04/06/2007:

OMG! No wonder Diario has been looking/acting different these last couple of days ...

http://www.amigoe.com/english/

Diario turns to Queen

ORANJESTAD – In an open letter, staff and management of the morning paper Diario have asked the Queen’s attention for the commercial boycott called by the MEP and her leader, Prime Minister Nelson Oduber.

MEP demanded the owner and also director and chief editor Jossy Mansur to publicly apologize to MEP and premier Oduber for all the articles he has published with the intention to damage the reputation of the government and MEP. Mansur has till last Monday to do this, otherwise, the MEP will announce a boycott against Diario.

Since Mansur ignored MEP’s ultimatum, the party decided on a total boycott of the newspaper. No information must be given to Diario. MEP-member had to cancel their subscription as per immediate.. They are also not allowed to buy the paper separately. They cannot place ads in the Diario.

That’s the reason for Diario’s letter to the Queen. He expressed his concern in this letter and asks the Queen to ‘safeguard our constitutional rights’.

And then there's this --

Clay Pigeon posted the link to this on the FP, in comments re. the Boycott Diario story. I believe this is from Easy's web site. These are Jossy's comments.

I have spaced some lines differently, to make a list ... I have bolded some phrases ...

"The MEP party is a party of delinquents and promotes delinquency (a Minister (Ramon Lee) who raped a woman, was accused by her to the Police, and was never even questioned!

Another Minister (Rudy Croes)who brought in young girls from Santo Domingo and wanted to force them into prostitution with him and his friends;

another Minister (Nilo Swaen) who was accused by his own department head of manipulating figures to make the government look good;

another Minister (Rudy Croes again) whose departments sold permits to foreigners, and under whom driver's licenses were also being sold;

another Minister (the Prime Minister Nelson Oduber) who is a habitual liar and will stop at nothing to carry out his Chavez-inclined plans for Aruba;

members of Parliament of the MEP party who were caught by the police in drunken driving (Junior Arends)

and hit and run (Robert Maduro);

and so much more delinquency and violations of our laws it would take an encyclopedia to hold them! THESE ARE ALL PROVEN FACTS! not lies or inventions made up to slander them. They are a group of the most corrupt public figures ever to participate in Aruban politics. Just go over the Holloway case, and now the Michael Saladin case, and you immediately know the anti-American sentiments of those now in power in Aruba.

To answer the stupid allegations in that MEP inspired and promoted piece of garbage:

1. I never funded any party in Aruba, much less the one Glenbert Croes started because Nelson Oduber, the actual Prime Minister, forbade him to participate in the party his father (Betico) founded. He was so disgusted with that prohibition that he decided, with a few friends his age, to start his own party called the OLA. This is another FACT! When you make this kind of allegation, you better have the necessary proofs (documents, transfer of money, etc.) to back up your allegation. In this case it is non-existent! Just another lie propagated by the corrupt officials who have now been discovered in the biggest of their foul deeds!

Do you remember the Holloway case and the flagrant cover-up that is going on? Well, this party will stop at nothing to slander and invent things that do not exist, or to harm Americans or American interests on the island).

2. The manifestations in front of the Government building in the past were about to get seriously out of hand by the violence inspired by the MEP party fanatics (car burning, invasion and destruction of government property, etc.) that I did meet with one labor leader to put sense into his head. That is another FACT impossible to deny!

3. I never met and have nothing to do with the Namdar group. Ask the FBI to interrogate Richad Lacle, who will soon be serving a prison sentence in Florida, to find out who is behind this group that offered a big bribe to Nelson Odbuer's party and was never denounced to the police or the prosecutors in Aruba. My attention was brought to this case by the revelation of a letter containing a bribery of 1 million guilders to Nelson Oduber and his party. The man to whom the letter was addressed is Michael Williams, ex-campaigner for the MEP party, and who is now in Holland in contact with the Dutch authorities. Williams stated unequivocally that he gave the original to Marisol Tromp (another MEP Minister), to Frerdis Refunjol, actual Governor in Aruba, and to Nelson Oduber (Prime Minister) and Edison Briezen (Minister of Tourism). None of these ever denounced the offered bribery to the authorities! This case is far from having reached the end. It is now beginning on an international level. I wouldn't be surprised if in the U.S., Effy Namdar will be arrested and interrogated with regards to this offered bribe. It's his signature that appears in the bribery letter! U.S. Laws strictly forbid this kind of commercial outright purchase of local and foreign officials in Government, regardless of how easy it is to buy the officials now in power!

4. When the previous government (AVP) was way off track, it was I and the DIARIO who confronted it and brought its government down. Not the MEP party, because they didn't have the credibility to convince anyone that they could do better. They lied their way through the campaign and were able to win with the DIARIO's help. I do not cater to any party in government or to any government! That too is a proven FACT.

5. There is no set up in this case, only the TRUTH! And it came out with a signed letter by Effy Namdar with a one million guilder bribery offer to the MEP party for the purchase of 100 acres of prime land at the port. Can you imagine the corruption involved here? And whether Nel Oduber, the habitual liar and head of the most corrupt government ever in Aruba, likes it or not, the DIARIO will do whatever it takes to stop the sale of public property against the offered 1 million guilders in the form BRIBERY!"

On Dana's show on 04/09/2007, Jossy indicated that a way to help with fighting the Diario boycott, would be to write to the Inter American Press Assn. in Miami. That contact information is in the first post on this thread.

[msmarple]

In the first post on this thread, there's an email to the Inter American Press Association. If you want to use that as a basis for YOUR message, that's fine.

However, now you can refer folks to THIS thread instead of the Murder & Crime thread if you prefer. Here is the URL for this page of this thread:

http://www.scaredmonkeys.net/posting.php?mode=reply&t=1045

I think this page has about everything anyone would need by way of further information about this boycott - aka government suppression of the press.

[Dihannah1]

Thanks for the info!  I will sending an email in support of Diario!  That government needs stopped!

[msmarple]

klaas posted this on LCD 04/16/2007. A searing editorial from Jossy in Diario. Emphasis added.

Diario editorial 4/16/07 translated by Jossy from Easy's blog (thanks Easy):

A TRAITOR AND HIS ANTI-ARUBAN GOVERNMENT (2)

The truth can hurt when it’s exposed without circumlocution! What could have led the mediocrity of the MEP party to lose their heads in such an ugly manner? Could it be the bribery of 1 million guilders? Is that what made them try to look for any distraction from this most shameful anti-Aruban act known in our history? Is it because Nel Oduber is searching for a way out of the atom-bomb that the Namdar offer exploded in his face, and that has converted Neldar into another victim that “can be bought and sold?"

Gentlemen, go ahead with your attempts to distract the attention from the offered bribery of the most shameful 1 million guilders that exists, and the delivery afterwards of our port to the same foreign group that put that money under the table! Is this or isn’t this the greatest demonstration of anti-Arubanism known until now? Must the Aruban continue on the path of the cross to get his rights, while the foreigners with money can just wave a few bills in their faces to at once get the permits or properties they want? Just consider all the cases that the most anti-Aruban government has lost in court so far! Two great doctors, real Arubans, Lacle and Posner, had to take the path of the cross to get their rights, and even so, are being politically persecuted until this day! Is this, or isn’t this one more demonstration of the most pathetic anti-Arubanism that exists?

Then Henny Eman and Otmar Oduber, another two Arubans with a long history of political persecution coming from the same Government and members of the MEP party, hungry for vengeance, moved by hate and rancor. They too had to suffer years of political persecution, to finally obtain in Court for the truth to conquer the lies, the slanders, the ridiculous accusations, thrown at them by a Government that has characterized itself as mediocre and totally anti-Aruban!

And we could go on and on to fill this whole paper with the long list of politically persecuted Arubans, just because they think different and want the good of their people and their island. To expose the truth in a newspaper, on the radio or on television, has become for the anti-Arubans in power the cause for unbelievable hysterics, a drowning in a glass of water, and an attempt to hide the bribery offer of 1 million guilders with shouts coming from the handful of mediocrities at their disposal. Mister Neldar can turn and turn, trying to find any motive that can help him extract himself, but the 1 million guilders hang over his head like the accusation of a judge.

The day I said that Nel Oduber’s government is anti American too, I came with the proofs to demonstrate it, but I left out a couple very painful for Nel, but since he again lost control over his tongue, here are more proofs: Natalee Holloway (American) and the American girl that his son mistreated and then wanted to rape in his own home! The father, a man from Panama, sent me all the proofs, including clinical reports of physical abuse, and I didn’t publish them for discretion’s sake and for consideration of a person that does not deserve it.

What did Nel’s government do in the case of Natalee? Hide their heads in a hole like ostriches so as not to see the truth of what was happening, try to fire Jan and Karin because they did not belong to the group of political yes-men of his government; put the interest for American tourism money above the value of a human life; try to throw the blame on the family of the girl that disappeared, instead of going all-out against the three suspects who are responsible for the bad name Aruba got in other countries, and rightly so because those in power did not lift one finger to defend the victim, but went all out behind the curtain to make the family responsible for the negative image Aruba got, and not against the three suspects in whose company the girl disappeared. She too is an American!

Then his unbelievably stupid anti-American statements; the case of his own son who tried to rape an American girl in his own home! Now there is another American arrested because he pulled a gun against a person that attacked his wife, then committed destruction against her property. A government that has characterized itself as an Anti-American one with unquestionable concrete proofs.

But, the worst is that this government is principally an Anti-Aruban one that obliges the sons of this island that do not belong to the privileged few of the MEP, to go through a truly torturous process to find their rights! For the foreigner with money? Everything! All they have to do is…let everyone complete the sentence for himself or herself, considering the bribery offer. And for the poor foreigners who come to Aruba with his or her work specialization, another road of the cross! A merciless persecution; an extraction of the little money that they have or can borrow, to obtain the papers for a permit that often never comes! Another inhuman persecution of those that did not come to commit acts against the law (like those that many of the delinquents around Nel did commit, some with judge’s sentences hanging over their heads!), but who came to Aruba to look for a better life and to contribute to our labor market with their talents and know-hows!

Nel Oduber has become a synonym for political persecution, for implacable hatred, for “can be bought and sold”, of 1 million guilders offered to a traitor willing to deliver our port in the hands of foreigners! This is a handing-over of the worst kind, of a dictatorial attitude never before seen on an island that always held its impeccable democracy in front of the eyes of the world for it to understand that in Aruba the empire of the Law is in command. We can no longer say that! Now our island has become, in the hands of Nel Oduber and his anti Aruban and anti-American government, an island of the abuse of power, of nepotism, of favors to the small group of privileged MEP fanatics, and political persecution against the rest of the population that do not subject themselves to his amens!

Oduber's son tried to rape an American girl in their home?      

[msmarple]

http://www.diario-aruba.com/2007/4/20/

I believe the Inter American Press Association sanctioned Oduber. I'll try a translation in next post.

DIARIO a salta baricada di intimidacion politico
SOCIEDAD INTER AMERICANO DI PRENSA TA SANCIONA NEL ODUBER Peticion pa e comporta segun su funcion

Cu practicamente e mes palabranan y a base di e mes argumentonan cu DIARIO a trece dilanti ora el a dicidi di manda un Carta Abierta pa La Reina y acerca instancianan internacional, e Sociedad Inter Americano di Prensa a dirigi su mes na Nelson Oduber. El a worde recorda kico su funcion ta encera y tambe cu e mes a firma e acuerdo internacional, cu ta garantiza libertad di prensa como pilar di democracia.

Esnan cu a worde usa pa MEP pa haci bofon di e caminda cu DIARIO a cana, ora Nelson Oduber y MEP a pensa di por intimida of crea baricada pa DIARIO haci su trabao, awe por siña e esencia fundamental di periodismo y con na forma internacional ta atende cu intimidacion y abuso politico.

Despues cu Nelson Oduber y su partido MEP a haci uso di e corant cu ta papia nan idioma so pa cuminza un boycot pa kibra DIARIO, e matutino di Pueblo Arubano a duna catedra con ta keda trankil den e situacionnan aki y encamina procesonan cu ta kibra e baricadanan di intimidacion.

Organizacion internacional preocupa cu represaya Nel

Sociedad Inter Americano di Prensa, Inter American Press Association (IAPA), dirigi na Ministro Presidente Nelson Oduber, manera e ta presenta su mes na e titular Arubano, ta consisti di 1300 medio di comunicacion den Hemisferio Occidental.

E ta expresa su preocupacion profundo y ta considera e yamamento publico di un boycot contra DIARIO door di Ministro Presidente Nelson Oduber, como represaya pa e actitud editorial critico di DIARIO, como un violacion di libertad di expresion.

E organizacion ta mustra cu e kehonan cu el a ricibi, den su capacidad como lider di Movemento Electoral di Pueblo, Nelson Oduber a pidi su sostenedornan pa cancela nan subscripcion na DIARIO, no cumpra DIARIO mas, no manda relatonan di prensa pa DIARIO, ni propaganda y pa no duna entrevista ni otro tipo di cooperacion na DIARIO.

E peticion di Nelson Oduber como lider di MEP a aparece den un aviso dia 2 di April den Solo di Pueblo, y manera e organizacion a mustra ta un boycot completo contra uno y tur cu ta relaciona cu DIARIO.

Accion pa DIARIO no haci su trabao

E organizacion ta bisa cu e accion di Nelson Oduber tabata pa impedi e labor periodistico di DIARIO y ta viola articulo 5 di e Declaracion di Chapultapec, cu Nelson Oduber a firma dia 24 di Mei, 2002. E principio menciona ta declara cu censura, restriccion di circulacion di medio of mishi cu raiz di nan reportahe, usa forza pa publicacion di informacion, imposicion di obstaculonan den e fluho liber di noticia y restriccion di actividadnan y movementonan di periodistanan, ta directamente contradictorio na libertad di prensa.

E asociacion internacional di prensa ta urgi Nelson Oduber pa bandona su postura di confrontacion, cu no ta di acuerdo cu su funcion publico. Na mes momento ta ta pidi Nelson Oduber pa tene e espacio di libertad di expresion y critica, fundamental cu e existencia di un sociedad democratico, habri.

E carta di IAPA na Ministro Presidente Oduber, cu por a worde midi a base di imparcialidad pasobra ta e publicacion di e Ministro Presidente a worde poni na su disposicion, ta papia pa su mes. Ta lamentable cu DIARIO mester a recuri na instancianan internacional pero no por a permiti pa intimidacion, pone tur instancia na Aruba na rudia.

DIARIO a duna muestra cu tin forma pa kibra e baricada di intimidacion, cu ta stroba buskeda di bienestar di e pais. Si DIARIO tambe permiti su mes worde usa como marioneta di Gobierno of baha cabez pa intimidacion, libertad na Aruba a muri. Cu tanto instancia temblando y mas pendiente di amenaza di Gobierno cu ehecucion di nan tarea, DIARIO tin e obligacion di para firme pa futuro di e pais.

Mientras esnan incapaz di conoce e camindanan internacional di periodismo, a haci hasta bofon di cartanan cu DIARIO a manda pa La Reina y instancianan internacional, awe nan por tuma nota con seriedad profesional ta topa cu e atencion y resultado desea y por spera cu un dia, si nan tambe cay den desgracia cerca e partido, nan por cana e camindanan democratico na bienestar di e pais.

Mientras esnan incapaz di conoce e camindanan internacional di periodismo, a haci hasta bofon di cartanan cu DIARIO a manda pa La Reina y instancianan internacional, awe nan por tuma nota con seriedad profesional ta topa cu e atencion y resultado desea y por spera cu un dia, si nan tambe cay den desgracia cerca e partido, nan por cana e camindanan democratico na bienestar di e pais.

[msmarple]

Online Pap translator:

daily paper owing to jump baricada of intimidacion
politico society inter americano of prensa is sanciona nel oduber peticion for her comporta according his funcion

cu practicamente the self words y owing to base of the self argumentonan cu daily paper owing to trece fast hour past owing to dicidi of send one carta abierta for la queen y acerca instancianan internacional, the society inter americano of prensa owing to dirigi his self at nelson oduber. past owing to worde recorda kico his funcion is encera y also cu the self owing to company the acuerdo internacional, cu is garantiza freedom of prensa because; pilar of democracia. esnan cu owing to worde using for mep for haci bofon of the caminda cu daily paper owing to march, hour nelson oduber y mep owing to think of can intimida or crea baricada for daily paper haci his trabao, today can learn the esencia fundamental of periodismo y con at form internacional is atende cu intimidacion y abuse politico. after cu nelson oduber y his faction mep owing to haci usage of the corant cu is talk they language only for cuminza one boycot for break daily paper, the matutino of people aruban owing to give catedra con is stay trankil in the situacionnan here y encamina procesonan cu is break the baricadanan of intimidacion. organizacion internacional preocupa cu represaya nel society inter americano of prensa, inter american press association (iapa), dirigi at ministro chairman nelson oduber, as the is present his self at the titular aruban, is consisti of 1300 medio of comunicacion in hemisferio occidental. the is expresa his preocupacion deep y is considera the yamamento publico of one boycot contra daily paper door of ministro chairman nelson oduber, because; represaya for her actitud editorial critico of daily paper, because; one violacion of freedom of expresion. the organizacion is show cu the kehonan cu past owing to ricibi, in his capacidad because; leader of movemento electoral of people, nelson oduber owing to ask his sostenedornan for cancela they subscripcion at daily paper, not cumpra daily paper more, not send relatonan of prensa for daily paper, neither propaganda y for not give interview neither another type of cooperacion at daily paper. the peticion of nelson oduber because; leader of mep owing to aparece in one ad day 2 of april in sun of people, y as the organizacion owing to show is one boycot completo contra uno y all cu is relaciona cu daily paper. accion for daily paper not haci his trabao the organizacion is tell cu the accion of nelson oduber was for impedi the job periodistico of daily paper y is viola articulo 5 of the declaracion of chapultapec, cu nelson oduber owing to company day 24 of half, 2002. the principio menciona is declara cu censura, restriccion of circulacion of medio or touch cu raiz of they reportahe, using forza for publicacion of informacion, imposicion of obstaculonan in the fluho pound of news y restriccion of actividadnan y movementonan of periodistanan, is directamente contradictorio at freedom of prensa. the asociacion internacional of prensa is urgi nelson oduber for bandona his postura of confrontacion, cu do not of acuerdo cu his funcion publico. at self instant is be ask nelson oduber for as the espacio of freedom of expresion y critica, fundamental cu the existencia of one society democratico, open. the carta of iapa at ministro chairman oduber, cu can owing to worde measure owing to base of imparcialidad because is the publicacion of the ministro chairman owing to worde poni at his disposicion, is talk for his self. is lamentable cu daily paper have to owing to recuri at instancianan internacional but not can owing to permiti for intimidacion, place all instancia at aruba at knee. daily paper owing to give sample cu have form for break the baricada of intimidacion, cu is stroba buskeda of bienestar of the country. if daily paper also permiti his self worde using because; marioneta of gobierno or descend cabez for intimidacion, freedom at aruba owing to die. cu tanto instancia temblando y more pendiente of amenaza of gobierno cu ehecucion of they tarea, daily paper have the obligacion of stop firme for future of the country. while esnan incapaz of conoce the camindanan internacional of periodismo, owing to haci even bofon of cartanan cu daily paper owing to send for la queen y instancianan internacional, today they can take notice con seriedad profesional is come across cu the atencion y result desea y can wait for cu one day, if they also cay in desgracia close the faction, they can march the camindanan democratico at bienestar of the country. while esnan incapaz of conoce the camindanan internacional of periodismo, owing to haci even bofon of cartanan cu daily paper owing to send for la queen y instancianan internacional, today they can take notice con seriedad profesional is come across cu the atencion y result desea y can wait for cu one day, if they also cay in desgracia close the faction, they can march the camindanan democratico at bienestar of the country.

[BTgirl]

Per Easy:

"Yes. The Inter-American Press Association sent Nel Oduber a very strong letter about his call for a boycott against the DIARIO. The IAPA in no uncertain terms reprimands the Prime Minister for taking such a stance against the freedom of expression and of the press, and reminds him of the Declaration of Chapultepec that Nel Oduber himself signed, upholding the freedom of the press."