"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, by its Spanish acronym) registered more than 100 aggressions against the press between January and mid-November of this year, according to data from its Monitoring Center to which the EFE news agency had access. The report indicates that up to Nov. 20 there were 107 aggressions, with 44 women journalists being affected and 50 men. APES, which has also suffered 3 aggressions, counted 10 'collective cases' and 8 against the media in said period. Similarly, the Association reported that 10 journalists who have left the country 'in exile,' of which 7 are men and 3 are women. In 2021, APES recorded a total of 219 violations against the press, while in 2020 there were 125 and 77 in 2019."
