Freddy Munoz a prominent human rights defender and high profile journalist was arrested by intelligence agents for “rebellion and terrorism” on 19 November in Bogotá airport on his return from a Telesur workshop in Venezuela.Freddy Munoz is a prolific journalistic currently working for Telesur, a channel founded by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavev to counteract the influence of north-American TV channels. Prior to working with Telesur he worked with leading Colombian newspapers, El Universa and El Periódico and has written extensively on the situation of forced displacement in Colombia and on drug trafficking. He has also documented reports of alleged government payments to paramilitaries during the peace negotiations.
In 2005, Telesur broadcast interviews with members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), seen as terrorists by Colombia and the United States. Telesur also broadcast footage of demonstrations against President Alvaro Uribe, who at the time expressed his “disquiet” and the United States called “provocation”. 
