Roberto Giusti
{{Short description|Venezuelan journalist (1954–2025)}}{{Family name hatnote|Giusti|Aranguren|lang=Spanish}}
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Roberto Antonio Giusti Aranguren (23 June 1954 – 22 January 2025){{Cite web |last= |first= |date=23 January 2025 |title=Falleció el periodista venezolano Roberto Giusti |trans-title=Venezuelan journalist Roberto Giusti has passed away |url=https://radioamerica.com.ve/fallecio-el-periodista-venezolano-roberto-giusti/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123202338/https://radioamerica.com.ve/fallecio-el-periodista-venezolano-roberto-giusti/ |archive-date=23 January 2025 |access-date=25 January 2025 |website=Radio América |language=es-ve}} was a Venezuelan journalist. He worked at numerous newspapers including El Nacional and El Universal. He wrote a lot of books including Yo Lo Viví, Memorias Inconclusas, and Pasión Guerrilla. He worked for Globovisión TV and was the host of Primera Página and Grado 33.{{cite news|url= http://www.elpais.com.co/paisonline/notas/Enero312010/chavez.html |title =La mayor amenaza de Chávez está dentro de su propia casa |date = 31 January 2010 | publisher= El Pais |accessdate = 31 January 2010|language=es}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
Background
Giusti was born in Rubio, Venezuela. He died on 22 January 2025, at the age of 71.[https://primicia.com.ve/nacion/fallecio-el-periodista-roberto-giusti/ Falleció el periodista Roberto Giusti] {{in lang|es}}
Death threats
On 13 May 2003, Giusti, host of the Radio Caracas Radio program Golpe a Golpe ("coup to coup") with Fausto Masso, filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office denouncing the death threats he had been receiving. On 2 May, a group of about fifty people entered the studios of Radio Caracas Radio and began shouting offensive slogans at the journalist and calling him a "murderer". The attackers sprayed graffiti on the building's walls and Giusti's car. Giusti called for an investigation into the incident and possible links to his reports on the presence of the government of Hugo Chávez and Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela.{{Cite web |url=http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/showDocument.cfm?documentID=3934 |title=2004 World Press Freedom Review |access-date=8 February 2010 |archive-date=13 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613062346/http://asylumlaw.org/docs/showDocument.cfm?documentID=3934 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |title=urru.org |url=https://urru.org/papers/20040215_Agresiones_Periodistas_DiputadoJordanHernandez_mayo.htm |access-date=25 July 2023 |website=urru.org}}
Interview With the Guerrilla
In the state of Táchira, Venezuela, the guerrilla was kidnapping and was taking money from the farmers that lived there. Giusti, who grew up in that state, knew some of the farmers and decided to do something. He went to Táchira from Caracas and started investigating. After talking to some of the local farmers, he decided to interview some members of the Guerrilla.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} After a year of negotiations, the members of the Guerrilla and Giusti agreed on an interview in a Guerrilla camp. He was interviewing Commander Alexis. While interviewing him, Commander Alexis admitted to killing eight members of the Venezuelan Marine Corps in the famous Cararabo Massacre in 1995. He then passed the border to Colombia to interview Raul Reyes an important FARC member. Reyes said that he was like Hugo Chávez, a Marxist–Leninist. Giusti later found a Colombian Guerrilla camp in Venezuela and reported it through the El Universal newspaper. When the Government of Colombia was going to Venezuela to the reunion between Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and Colombian president Álvaro Uribe, they invited Giusti to it in Puerto Ordaz. The Colombian Government gave him a map of all the camps of the Guerrilla in Venezuela and he released it. He later received threats from the Venezuelan Government and the Guerrilla, but they did not mess with him.PasiónGuerrilla
References
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Books
- Hernández, Ramón, and Roberto Giusti. Carlos Andrés Pérez: Memorias Proscritas. Caracas: Los Libros de El Nacional, 2006
External links
- Roberto Giusti, El Universal, 21 October 2009, [http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/10/21/en_opi_esp_roberto-giusti--not_21A2931411.shtml Not against Chávez: It is against all the ordeals suffered by us as something natural and unavoidable]
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Category:Venezuelan journalists
Category:People from Rubio, Venezuela
Category:Venezuelan television presenters
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