Renato Alvarez
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Renato Álvarez Vásquez (*1961 in El Porvenir, Francisco Morazán
El Porvenir, Francisco Morazán
El Porvenir is a municipality in the Honduran department of Francisco Morazán....

) is a journalist from Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

 who reads the evening news on TN5. He has become news himself after being condemned to 2 years and 8 months in prison for announcing the story originally published in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 about a corruption known as grey traffic (tráfico gris) in the Empresa Hondureña de Telecomunicaciones (Hondutel) which is the nationalised telecommunications company for Honduras.

On September 28, 2007 Hondutel chief Marcelo Chimirri filed lawsuits, naming Renato Álvarez and Rossana Guevara of the TV station Televicentro, Melissa Amaya and Juan Carlos Funes of radio Cadena Voces, Carlos Mauricio Flores, the editor of the daily El Heraldo, and Nelson Fernández, managing editor of the newspaper La Prensa. They are accused of “attacking his reputation” by repeating the El Universal’s
El Universal (Mexico City)
El Universal is a major Mexican newspaper.El Universal was founded by Félix Palavicini and Emilio Rabasa in October 1916, in the city of Santiago de Queretaro to cover the end of the Mexican Revolution and the creation of the new Mexican Constitution...

allegations of embezzlement within Hondutel.

His parents are Irma Vásquez and Miguel Angel Álvarez.
From Monday to Friday he runs a News program
News program
A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors...

on the Honduran television Televicentro Canal 5 El Lider called Frente a Frente.
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