The director of the site Código Venezuela, journalist Milagros Socorro, announced that hackers attacked her blog, Twitter and e-mail accounts in retaliation for criticizing President Chavez's communications ministry, reported the website La Patilla.
The International Press Institute (IPI) announced that 12 Latin American journalists received death threats in the last month. The grim practice has become disturbingly common in countries like Honduras and Peru, where the highest number of cases originated.
Um homem que se identificou como membro da organização criminosa Los Urabeños chamou uma emissora de rádio da cidade de Valledupar, no nordeste da Colômbia, para informar que havia recebido ordens de atentar contra a vida de várias pessoas, entre elas uma jornalista, de acordo com a Fundação para a Liberdade de Imprensa (FLIP, na sigla em espanhol) da Colômbia.
A member of the Colombian criminal organization Los Urabeños called in to a radio show in the northern city of Valledupar saying that he had been ordered to attack a journalist and several other individuals, reported the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP in Spanish).
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression said he would ask the Honduran government permission to investigate the killings of 16 journalists in the Central American country since the June 2009 coup d'état, reported the news agency EFE.
O carro do jornalista Sérgio Ricardo de Almeida da Luz foi atingido por seis tiros na manhã desta quarta-feira, 5 de outubro, em Toledo, no estado do Paraná, informou o site O Paraná. O veículo estava estacionado em frente ao prédio onde mora o repórter, mas não havia ocupantes no momento do atentado.
An arsonist burned the offices of a radio station broadcasting out of the town of Zárate, north of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, reported the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA in Spanish).
Yahoo! Vice President Luke Beatty announced the search engine's still nascent Yahoo! Contributor Network, a freelance collaborative news network, was coming to Brazil, IDG Now! reported.
Police detained two suspects for the killing of two reporters in Mexico City, reported the newspaper El Universal. The reporters, Marcela Yarce and Rocío González Trápaga, were killed in an abandoned property on the evening of Sept. 1, on their way to exchange one million Mexican pesos (more than U.S. $72,000) into U.S. dollars, reported the EFE news agency.
For suffering through attacks and threats for covering drug trafficking and organized crime, Mexican journalist Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was named one of the winners of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2011 International Press Freedom Awards.
O presidente do Equador, Rafael Correa, ameaçou ingressar com uma nova ação contra o jornal El Universo após a publicação de uma provocativa carta escrita por uma deputada, de acordo com a organização Fundamedios.
Against the backdrop of three journalists killed, one jailed, others facing death threats, and two more accused of defamation, Peru celebrated Journalists' Day on Saturday, Oct. 1.