Arnulfo Aguilar, the director of an Honduran educational radio station that supports an opposition party, Radio Uno, narrowly escaped an armed ambush near his home on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula.
He blames the army for the attack by a gang of masked gunmen, which he eluded after calling on his neighbours and the police, who took more than an hour to respond.
Aguilar had revealed on air that day that a US defence department cable, released by WikiLeaks, had accused the Honduran army of selling arms to drug cartels in Colombia and Mexico.
Three other members of the Honduran media have been the targets for attacks or acts of sabotage in the past two months:
Franklin Meléndez, the head of community radio station La Voz de Zacate Grande, was shot and wounded on 13 March.
Another of the station's journalists, the agricultural community leader Pedro Canales, discovered on 16 April that his car had been sabotaged. Death threats followed.
The home of Alfredo López, the head of Afro-Honduran community radio station Radio Faluma Bimetu was set alight on 7 April in the wake of several serious attacks on the station.
All these cases remain unpunished.
Source: Reporters Without Borders
