In Venezuela, a journalist and photographer were attacked by city police Nov. 30, reported the International Freedom of Expression Exchange reported Wednesday, Dec. 7.
On Wednesday, Dec. 7, a Peruvian journalist was sentenced to two years in prison for defamation, reported the newspaper La Primera.
Sebastiana Barráez joined the growing list of Venezuelan journalists suffering cyber attacks when hackers allegedly accessed her Twitter account on Nov. 30.
Journalists from a local Peruvian newspaper received death threats after publishing an article recommending dialogue to solve an on-going conflict over the proposed gold-and-copper Conga mining project in the northwestern Cajamarca.
For the first time in 15 years, Cuba did not appear on the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) census of jailed journalists, that organization reported Thursday, Dec. 8.
A Brazilian photojournalist was forcibly removed from a military police strike he was covering at the legislative assembly of São Luis in the state of Maranhão on the morning of Dec. 1, reported the website Gazeta da Ilha.
The Honduran radio journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos was shot to death Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the capital city of Tegucigalpa, according to the Associated Press.
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) presented a formal complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the unpunished killings of Colombian journalists, whose statue of limitation expires this year, reported the Associated Press.
Gunmen shot at the offices of the La Tribuna newspaper in Honduras early in the morning of Dec. 5, reported C-Libre.
Brazilian soccer fans attacked news vans from TV Globo and Globosat on Dec. 4, near the Engenhão stadium in Rio de Janeiro, reported Uol.
Members of the Construction Union, a majority of which are affiliated with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's United Socialist Party of Venezuela, threatened and tried to censor journalists on Nov. 28.
Mexican journalist Marco Lara Klahr released the book "No More 'Payers': a Guide to Journalism on the Presumption of Innocence and Criminal Justice Reform" to encourage Mexican journalists to respect the presumption of innocence when writing about suspects of violent crimes.