Friday, January 31, 2025

Telesur journalist denied entry to Honduras

The Telesur correspondent's rejection comes in the context of the first general elections of 2021

Journalist Adriana Sivori from the Venezuelan channel Telesur, who traveled to cover the general elections in Honduras on November 28, told that country's UNETV network that she was denied entry at the Tegucigalpa airport, where immigration officials took her to a site for an interview in which they asked her for the same information she had already declared on the forms and the same questions she had previously filled out: "Would you like to stay during your stay, where you were from, and the names and phone numbers of your contacts." The journalist also said that she was made to sign a document to confirm that her information was correct, and after a brief wait, she was told that she was not authorized to enter the country.

The reporter claimed that the