Milton Coleman, president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and an editor of The Washington Post, visited Honduras on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to talk with President Porfirio Lobo about a proposed bill to regulate the Honduran media, reported Proceso.
Criticizing the country's media, Lobo said media should be bound by ethics, but that calling for an adherence to ethics is not an attack on free expression, reported the newspaper La Tribuna.
When asked about the 17 journalists killed in Honduras since 2010, the President said to Coleman, “The situation is very sad, and although investigations are being conducted, there are still no results,” reported the agency EFE.
After Mexico, Honduras is the second most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists. The country is also considered to have the highest homicide rate in the world.
