Dr Iqbal Survé says: 'I won't be intimidated as a media owner'
'They tried to buy me. They tried to break me. They tried to bury me under three thousand headlines. Thirteen years later, I am still standing, and I am still not for sale.'
In an interview at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's annual lecture, Dr Iqbal Survé emphatically stated that he would not be intimidated as a media owner. The former Colombian president and Nobel Peace laureate, Juan Manuel Santos, had delivered a lecture on the theme "When is silence complicity?" Dr Survé found Santos's words to be an apt response to the question he often faced since acquiring Independent Media in 2013.
Santos had been fighting a war that had lasted over half a century and received the Nobel Peace Prize just months after, underscoring the importance of media freedom in achieving peace and democracy.
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