The head of the Telesur network has expressed solidarity with Margarita Simonyan
The president of major Latin American media outlet Telesur, Patricia Villegas Marin, has sent a message of support to RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan following a foiled assassinate plot against the Russian journalist. Nicaragua’s vice president, Rosario Murillo, also condemned the plan, which was reportedly orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence.
“Our solidarity [is] with Margarita and the RT and Sputnik Mundo teams that she manages masterfully,” Villegas wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday. Earlier that day, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that it had arrested a group of neo-Nazis who were allegedly planning to assassinate Simonyan and another prominent Russian journalist, Ksenia Sobchak.
Villegas, who manages the Caracas-based Telesur multiplatform news network, which is financed by Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, had previously expressed solidarity with RT, criticizing the US and its allies over attempts to limit the Russian media outlet’s operations.
In March 2022, Villegas condemned what she called the “censorship” of RT and Sputnik in the EU, branding the bloc’s decision to ban the outlets as “an act of dictatorship.” Brussels took the move in response to the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
The president of major Latin American media outlet Telesur, Patricia Villegas Marin, has sent a message of support to RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan following a foiled assassinate plot against the Russian journalist. Nicaragua’s vice president, Rosario Murillo, also condemned the plan, which was reportedly orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence.
“Our solidarity [is] with Margarita and the RT and Sputnik Mundo teams that she manages masterfully,” Villegas wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday. Earlier that day, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported that it had arrested a group of neo-Nazis who were allegedly planning to assassinate Simonyan and another prominent Russian journalist, Ksenia Sobchak.
Villegas, who manages the Caracas-based Telesur multiplatform news network, which is financed by Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, had previously expressed solidarity with RT, criticizing the US and its allies over attempts to limit the Russian media outlet’s operations.
In March 2022, Villegas condemned what she called the “censorship” of RT and Sputnik in the EU, branding the bloc’s decision to ban the outlets as “an act of dictatorship.” Brussels took the move in response to the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
