{"id":248763,"date":"2006-02-08T11:08:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/02\/bahamian-guards-attack-us-journalists"},"modified":"2006-02-08T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T16:08:52","slug":"bahamian-guards-attack-us-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/02\/bahamian-guards-attack-us-journalists","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Guards Attack US Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>A Miami-based television reporter and two cameramen were injured and briefly jailed by Bahamian police Tuesday while covering the detention of Cuban migrants on the island.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Manuel Vallejo, a reporter with WLTV-Univision 23, sustained a cut to his head. He was treated at a local hospital a released.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Cameraman Osvaldo Duarte, also of Channel 23, was arrested, along with Lazaro Obreu, a cameraman with Telemundo Channel 51. Both men were eventually released.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Emilio Marrero, Channel 23&#8217;s news director, said Vallejo and Duarte had been in Nassau covering the plight of seven Cubans rescued last week from a deserted Bahamian island. On Tuesday, the crew was outside the Carmichael Detention Center where the group is being held.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>They were there to cover a reunion between the migrants and their Miami relatives who flew to Nassau.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what happened, but things got out of hand,&#8221; Marrero said.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>On the air, Vallejo said the scuffle began as he was on his cellphone to the station back in Miami reporting that Obreu was being arrested. A Bahamian officer grabbed him and slammed him against a parked car. &#8220;He split his head above his eyebrow,&#8221; Marrero said.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US reporters get a taste of Bahamian hospitality as Defence Force pigs abuse and beat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}