[3] It was transmitted on the 91.1 frequency under the auspices of the Instituto Ecuménico de Servicios a la Comunidad (INESCO), a community organization directed by a priest, Father Fausto Milla.
[4] An obituary recalled that only a few weeks before his death, he had provided a local school, la Escuelita de Opoa, with a movie projector so that the children could be shown the Charlie Chaplin film The Great Dictator.
[3] A local source stated that he was last seen alive at around 4 pm in Santa Rosa de Copán, at which time an unidentified man contracted his services as a taxi driver.
[5] “Here in the city there is dismay, no anxiety; a tremendous situation, we are humbled”, said Anarely Rodríguez, his friend and colleague at Radio Opoa, said after Cruz's death that the town was full of “dismay” and “distress.”[9] Camille Soulier, head of the Americas desk at Reporters without Borders, said, “We urge the authorities to do everything possible to identify those responsible for this horrible crime and bring them to trial.” She noted that Cruz's murder came less than two months after the killing of another Honduran journalist, Carlos Mejía Orellana of Radio Progreso.
In a statement, PEN expressed alarm at “the continued climate of fear and persecution which Honduran journalists face on a daily basis” and called on Honduran authorities “to break once and for all the country’s legacy of impunity by expediting a full, impartial and independent investigation into these and all other journalist murders.” Marian Botsford Fraser, chair of PEN's Writers in Prison Committee, said that the two murders “go to show how much further the State of Honduras has to go to protect its journalists.”[1]