During the 1980s she was president of the Venezuelan state television channel, Venezolana de Televisión, and held a column of opinion in the newspaper El Universal for almost twenty years.
[2] After her tenure as president of Venezolana de Televisión, she was publicly accused of improper handling of the channel's resources, statements that have not been proven before the justice.
[1][3] His father, Francisco Colomina, was a cabinet-maker who emigrated to Venezuela to work in the Caribbean Petroleum Company, later returned to Spain to serve on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
[8] According to human rights organizations, colleagues and Colomina itself, the cessation of its column, its radio and television programs, was due to pressures exerted by the government of Hugo Chávez to the executives of those companies.
This happened a day after Ibéyise Pacheco, editor of the newspaper and Patricia Poleo, Marianella Salazar and Marta Colomina released a video of talks between the Venezuelan Army and the FARC's Colombian guerrilla.
On June 21, 2003, an audio device was exploded with pamphlets containing messages against Colomina, a hundred meters from the radio station and just as the journalist's program was being transmitted.
[13] Following the neglect of the Venezuelan government to take measures to preserve life ordered by the Court, the mayor of Chacao, Leopoldo López assigned two municipal police escorts for her protection.
In 2003 several deputies of the National Assembly asked the Public Prosecutor's Office to open an investigation against her for the dissemination of information about looting in the city of Valencia.
[15] In addition to the IACHR, several organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, the Human Rights Foundation and the Press and Society Institute have spoken out against verbal and physical attacks on the journalist.