Um jornal mexicano informou que dois de seus empregados estão desaparecidos no estado central de Zacatecas, segundo El Espectador.
Sociedade Interamericana de Imprensa (SIP) e Repórteres Sem Fronteiras (RSF) pediram nesta terça-feira, 15 de novembro, a imediata libertação do editor do jornal Sexto Poder Leocenis García, preso preventivamente desde 30 de agosto e em greve de fome desde 9 de novembro.
"I haven't left work early since Mouriño's plane fell. Be careful fellow flyers," posted a Twitter user in Mexico just days before the helicopter carrying the Mexican interior minister and seven others crashed on Nov. 11 outside Mexico City. "Tomorrow on 11/11 a secretary will fall from the sky," tweeted another user with the handle Morf0.
The host of a television news program in the province of Ucayali, in the eastern Amazonian region of Peru, received a death threats over the phone from a prison in the capital, Lima, reported the Press and Society Institute.
A local newspaper in the northern Mexican city of Torreón suffered a second armed attacked in the dawn of Nov. 15, reported Radio Fórmula.
An Uruguayan journalist filed charges for torture he suffered during the 1973-1985 dictatorship in the South American country, according to reports from El Comercio on Nov. 11.
Following accusations of corruption involving Carlos Lupi, Brazilian minister of Labor and Employment, Lupi ordered the stories being investigated by the media to be leaked on one of the ministry's blogs, reported Terra.
In the midst of rising social tensions sparked by ongoing student protests in Chile, with violent results for some journalists, Reporters Without Borders denounced new threats against freedom of information in the South American country following cyber attacks on three news sites on Nov. 4.
Os jornalistas hondurenhos Arnulfo Aguilar e Luis Gadalmez voltaram a receber ameaças de morte, apesar das medidas cautelares concedidas pela Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos, segundo a agência EFE.
O diretor da organização defensora da liberdade de expressão Fundamedios recebeu ameaças de morte na sexta-feira, 11 de novembro, segundo informou a agência EFE.
The director of an organization that defends freedom of expression in Ecuador received death threats on Nov. 11, according to a report from the EFE news agency.
Honduran journalists Arnulfo Aguilar and Luis Gadalmez continue to receive death threats despite precautionary measures provided by the Inter American Commission for Human Rights, reported the news agency EFE.