By Ingrid Bachmann
The Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Catalina Botero, says that Latin America still faces major challenges to freedom of expression, despite advancements on political fronts. Botero reiterated the gravity of killings, attacks, threats, disappearances, and imprisonment of journalists, EFE reports.
“We have left military dictatorships behind, we have resolved the majority of armed conflicts, and the majority [of countries] prohibit censorship,” Botero says. However, countries need to deal immediately with violence against journalists and impunity for those crimes, and they should end “the criminalization of dissent,” she says.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
