Comments on: An update on Colombian journalist Hollman Morris

By: Reversed: Colombian journalist Hollman Morris is free to come to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow » Nieman Journalism Lab

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:04:40 +0000

[...] pleased to provide an update on the case of Hollman Morris, which I’ve written about here and here. Hollman is the noted Colombian journalist who was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to come study here [...]

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:55:54 +0000

I am very happy to see a posting by “Pedro” –now everyone can read for themselves the incredibly absurd and dangerous witch-hunting that is taking place in Colombia. If you ask questions you are immediately linked to the FARC which pretty much puts a bullseye on your head and you become a target of the paramilitaries. Human Rights Watch has documented clear ties and operations between the Colombian government & paramilitaries. The paramilitaries were originally formed to counter the FARC & now have become a huge force themselves.

By: DK Fennell

DK Fennell — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:47:34 +0000

Dear Mr El Rapido:
Our universities are quite capable of evaluating “propaganda”. In fact, it is one of the functions of a university here to examine the basis of claims of all sorts. Universities, and in fact American citizens themselves, could probably also evaluate the veracity of your claims if you chose to produce any sort of evidence.

Our State Department, however, is not interested in evaluating evidence. That is why it for so many years denied a visa to Nobel Laureate Garcia Marquez, which, I assume, even you Mr El Rapido don’t claim is a terrorist.

If Mr Morris is such a threat to the fabric of America, he must be even more so to the well being of the Republic of Colombia. So why has he not been arrested? I believe the current administration of Colombia has shown that it is not afraid to cut-corners (to put it mildly) to protect what it believes is the national security of that country.

By: Pedro El Rapido

Pedro El Rapido — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:27:25 +0000

Morris is a well known terrorist in colombia. He is a member of the
FARC and has been involved in various kidnappings. The FARC kidnapps
innocent citizens and then contact Morris to interview the
kidnapped. Morris then do interviews in a way that the FARC is not
shown as the degenerates murderers they are. Then Morris gets a part
of the ransom money for his interview. I congratulate the american
government, Morris is a threat to america and his only intention is to
infiltrate american universities with propaganda from terrorist
organization he belongs to: the FARC.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:27:32 +0000

Harvard please exercise the immense power you have as a world class institution with an immense network of alumni. It is laughable that the narco-democracy that is Colombia has convinced the US that this investigatve journalist is a “terrorist”. Have we forgotten that the International Crim. Court is looking at Colombia for crimes against humanity?

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:16:36 +0000

Thank you so very much for this post.