Workers of Caracas-based private TV news network Globovisión rejected through a statement the accusations and threats made last weekend by several pro-government groups.

"We categorically reject their accusations as absurd and totally unfounded," said the document. The workers also urged government authorities to "publicly repudiate and detach themselves from these acts of harassment against journalists and workers of Globovisión, and to ensure peaceful enjoyment of the constitutional rights of free movement of persons and freedom of information and expression."

They also urged the Executive Office to enforce an order issued on August 3, 2004 by the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights requesting the State to adopt the measures necessary to safeguard the life, personal integrity, and freedom of speech of journalists, management staff, and employees of Globovisión. This order was ratified in three subsequent rulings.