Guyler C. Delva says his push to defend fellow reporters and revive the case of a slain colleague has angered Haiti’s transitional government and left him fearing for his safety.
Organizations and families who have spent decades demanding justice for murdered and missing journalists fear the law will block access to justice.
Corruption, infiltration of organized crime and negligence by authorities are constant in the murders of 19 journalists since 1991, according to Alianza Paraguay, a collaborative, cross-border project led by Forbidden Stories and OCCRP.
Human rights groups say the Ortega-Murillo regime’s silence on Tercero’s disappearance amounts to torture and are urging greater international pressure to determine her whereabouts.
Journalist José Luis Tan says he feared arrest after months of harassment over his criticism of the Cuban regime. This is his story of a journey through rain, mud, and eleven borders in an attempt to escape a dictatorship that tried to silence him.
Reporter Jocelyn Justin, injured in a gang attack on a hospital in Port-au-Prince, spent several weeks without money while waiting for surgery in Cuba. Press organizations complained that the Haitian government was failing to fulfill its promise to cover his expenses and basic needs.
A Salvadoran court sentenced three former officers to 15 years in prison for ordering an ambush that killed four Dutch journalists during the civil war. It’s the first time a crime of humanity documented by the UN Truth Commission has led to a conviction in El Salvador.
Three years after Dom Phillips was killed alongside Indigenous rights expert Bruno Pereira, fellow journalists completed his final work. He sought to answer how to save the world’s largest rainforest — and why.
Claudia Duque has spent two decades fighting for justice after being spied on and threatened by government agents. So now that the state is finally offering an apology, why is she refusing to accept it?
A study conducted by the Argentine Journalism Forum reveals that 70% of the women journalists interviewed have suffered psychological violence in the exercise of their profession.
In Ecuador’s northern border region, where journalist Patricio Aguilar was killed last month, violence, precarity, and lack of state protection are driving reporters to self-censor or leave the profession—deepening the region’s vacuum of information.
At least half a dozen Dominican journalists were targeted online after being accused of receiving support from the U.S. government, highlighting how U.S. political narratives resonate in Latin America.