Cagayan de Oro's most red-tagged journalist linked to Reds again
Apr 23, 2021 1:19 PM PHT
Herbie Gomez
Journalist Leonardo "Cong" Corrales is earning the reputation as the most red-tagged journalist in Cagayan de Oro.
The 47-year-old Corrales, associate editor of the Cagayan de Oro-based
Mindanao Gold Star Daily, has been subjected to numerous red-taggings on social media, and in anti-communist propaganda materials circulated in the city since 2019.
This week, he found old photos of himself again in leaflets and posters that linked organizers of the city's first community pantry in Barangay Kauswagan to the decades-old communist insurgency.
One photo showed him brandishing a "firearm." That photo, he laughingly said, was taken while he was playing with an Airsoft replica toy gun used as props during a safety training for journalists sometime in 2010.