"The National Union of Journalists of Ecuador declared this Friday, April 8, 2022, as the Mourning Day of Ecuadorian Journalism. The organization commemorates this date in tribute to Javier Ortega, Efraín Segarra and Paúl Rivas, the journalistic team of EL COMERCIO, who was kidnapped and killed by dissidents on the northern border. During a commemorative […]
"Independent journalist Anay Remón García was questioned and threatened this Thursday afternoon, April 8, by two political police agents. During her interrogation, in the Zanja police unit, belonging to the municipality of Centro Habana, regime officials threaten to put her in jail because of her collaboration with the unofficial media outlet CubaNet. 'In short, what […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and other civil society organizations signed this Wed., April 6, a joint statement in which they request the complete withdrawal of the provisions on parliamentary immunity and remuneration for journalistic content from bill 2630 /2020, known as 'PL das Fake News' ['Fake News Initiative']. This public demonstration is […]
"The jury of the 39th edition of the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards, met this Wednesday, April 6, at the headquarters of EL PAÍS in Madrid, and announced the winners. (...) In the category of Best Multimedia Coverage, the special 'The challenge behind the massacre: Memory, truth, justice, and non-repetition,' published by the Nicaraguan media […]
"For the civil organization Article 19 there is no doubt: the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is already the most violent against journalists and the media since records have been kept. This was stated this Tuesday, April 5, at a press conference held by Leopoldo Maldonado, director of the organization that defends […]
“For many years, in this space our readers have found critical journalism with a stated intention to understand the political and social phenomena that determine the lives of Salvadorans and Central Americans. Among them, we have also explained the gangs, their origin and their excessive development in the north of Central America, how they subdued […]
"Guatemalan authorities should immediately dismiss criminal proceedings against journalist Juan Luis Font, allow him to work freely without fear of reprisal, and stop using lawsuits to harass members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. In late March 2022, the country’s former communications minister Alejandro Sinibaldi brought a criminal case against Font, […]
“The Legislative Assembly approved this Tuesday, March 5, a reform to the Penal Code to sanction with ten to fifteen years in prison those who through the media ‘reproduce or transmit messages or communications’ from gangs. This prohibition covers the dissemination of 'texts, paintings, designs, drawings and graffiti' of gangs, according to the reform approved […]
"The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP) denounced this Saturday, April 2, that its executive director, the independent journalist Alberto Corzo, was brutally attacked in Matanzas by 'two unknown persons sent by the political police.' The ICLEP detailed in a statement that two individuals specializing in martial arts suddenly attacked Corzo […]
"The Chamber of Deputies celebrated the approval of the Ingrid Law as a historic advance for the rights of victims and against the re-victimization of women who suffer femicide. All parties approved last week for the first time a reform to the Penal Code that punishes with up to 10 years in prison the dissemination […]
"A post by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro in which he makes an ironic reference to an episode of torture suffered by journalist Míriam Leitão during the Brazilian military dictatorship caused a wave of condemnation among politicians from various positions. On Twitter, the son of President Jair Bolsonaro shared the image of a column by Leitão, […]
"This Sunday, April 3, Noticias Uno denounced in its on-air broadcast that its director, Cecilia Orozco, was chased by a hearse to her residence. The events occurred on the past holiday weekend of March 21. According to news outlet, the event took place when Orozco She left the TV channel's building and headed home.The journalist […]