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The story begins last Saturday when Hoyos, known in the country for the program ‘The voices of kidnapping’, published this recording in which He affirmed that the urban Eln militias and the FARC dissidents were involved in the weekend demonstrations in Bogotá.
The journalist published it on his Twitter profile, where he has a little more than 60,000 followers and has about 3,200 views.
The sensitivity of the situation lies in the way he delivered the information. According to him, these organized criminal groups have established roles, and he detailed:
“Some are those who attack, others are those who film; there are some who even have press vests, there are others who sometimes wear human rights vests. The structure is perfectly organized and trained ”.
Those words were considered as if there were put a target on journalists who attend to cover the demonstrations for their respective media and for those who are guarantors of human rights in these days.
The journalist was criticized by many of his colleagues who considered that he put them at risk by stating that there are guerrilla militiamen who disguise themselves in this way and that in the next few occasions they could be in danger by warning that they are from the press, which precisely seeks to prevent them from being considered part of the marches, especially when there are disturbances.
But the situation went much further when that same Saturday, November 21, former President Álvaro Uribe published that video on Twitter, where he has almost 5 million followers.
In your profile, recording is titled ‘The militias of the FARC and the ELN attack again in Bogota and Medellin’, and while Hoyos speaks the images of the attack show a police patrol which not only sees the vandals but reporters who were recording the situation.
Appearing on those accompanied images of such sensitive information made the protagonists to worry, and considering that the video Uribe has almost 70,000 copies, which is a far greater extent than it had been in the profile of the journalist.
To this is added the credibility that many people give to everything that the former senator publishes; Furthermore, he retweeted that video and added a phrase in which he spoke of “terrorist violence.”
While the Government works in Providencia and millions of Colombians benefit from the day without VAT, the terrorist violence aims to cloud the country’s effort https://t.co/taxsiYCeN3
– Álvaro Uribe Vélez (@AlvaroUribeVel) November 22, 2020
Given the impact generated by the information and after the claims of his colleagues and hundreds of citizens, the journalist had to go out to clarify and recorded two other videos.
In the first he clarified that those seen in these videos “are colleagues who were doing coverage” and not members of the militias. He also emphasized that other photographs he used “do not correspond to people who are part of the structure.”
IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: In this case recorded on video, the colleagues and photographers who appear in these images at the scene of the events do not correspond to or belong to the group that attacks the police vehicle. They are professional photographers accredited to national media. pic.twitter.com/R5qwduNUbI
– Herbin Hoyos Medina (@herbinhoyos) November 23, 2020
And in a second video, more extensive, and which was released this Monday, he insisted that he can “prove that there are militias” but reiterated that “those who appear with press vests in that video are not from the group, they are fellow journalists.”
Herbin Hoyos had to go out to make this clarification … pic.twitter.com/Gld5JOdItC
– Ana (@PuraCensura) November 23, 2020
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