"IPI [International Press Institute] and IMS [International Media Support] are proud to announce that distinguished Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a pioneering figure for women in media in the Middle East who was killed while on assignment this year, and El Salvador’s Carlos Dada, co-founder and director of El Faro, one of Latin America’s most prominent […]
"The United States released Dámaso López Serrano, alias the 'Mini-lic.' He is the drug trafficker who in 2017 turned himself in to authorities in California and is wanted in Mexico as the alleged mastermind of the murder that same year of Sinaloa journalist Javier Valdez. According to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons website, López […]
"Mexican authorities must immediately and properly investigate threats against journalist Rodrigo Bustillos and guarantee his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday (Sept 16). Bustillos, a veteran reporter based in Tehuacán in the central Mexican state of Puebla, currently works for privately owned news sites Domingo7 Tehuacán and Grupo Entiempo Comunicaciones, which post their coverage on Facebook. […]
"One year ago, on Sept. 19, 2021, journalist Marcos Efraín Montalvo was murdered in Tuluá, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. [...] His murder created an atmosphere of self-censorship and made visible the risks faced by the press in the region. For the [Colombian] Prosecutor's Office, one of the hypotheses is that the murder was related to […]
"Judge Paulo Rogerio Santos Pinheiro, of the 43rd Civil Court of the Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP), Brazil, ordered federal congresswoman Carla Zambelli to remove two posts on Twitter in which she attacks journalist Vera Magalhaes. The decision was published on Saturday (Sept. 17), but on Monday morning (Sep. 19) the comments were […]
"In the early morning of Sept. 13, security cameras captured the precise moment in which two subjects on board a motorcycle threw an explosive at the main door of the television channel Cadena Sur de Ica (...) This impact totally destroyed the front of the establishment. To date, only material damage has been reported. According […]
"Demonstrators violently protesting against the economic policies imposed by the [Haitian] government assaulted Sept. 15 the headquarters of the state-run Radio Television Nationale d'Haiti (TNH), in the Delmas neighborhood. They set fire to three vehicles, threw stones at the building and stole equipment from the station, according to local media. The police dispersed and prevented […]
"The undersigned organizations address Brazilian society to express their indignation and revolt over a new attack against Vera Magalhães, host of the program Roda Viva, of TV Cultura, and columnist for the newspaper O Globo and CBN radio. Magalhães was harassed and verbally assaulted on Tues. night on Sept. 13, by Sao Paulo state deputy […]
"The murder of radio broadcaster and journalist Humberto Coronel by a hit man in Pedro Juan Caballero, last Sept. 6, reopened the bleeding wound of the bullets that silenced the voices of journalism. Paraguay has 20 journalists and communicators murdered in the democratic era, in the course of 30 years. This is the figure of […]
"One month after the assassination of journalist Gerardo Delgado, [who used to work at] Ola Manta, the Montecristi Prosecutor's Office is moving forward with preliminary investigations, amid complete secrecy. According to information from the news outlet La Marea de Manabí, by a request of the Police to the Prosecutor's Office, and by order of a […]