"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 […]
"Guatemalan authorities should immediately drop criminal charges against journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc, a correspondent for local news outlet Prensa Comunitaria, and stop using the country’s justice system to harass and silence the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On January 14, a criminal court judge in Puerto Barrios, in the eastern Guatemalan department […]
"Gustavo Abigail 'N,' detained based on an arrest warrant as having allegedly involved in the murder of the journalist from Veracruz Julio Valdivia in Tezonapa, is the son of the then Oaxacan PRI deputy Gustavo 'N,' currently under criminal proceedings. He's accused of allegedly having shot at police officers in the municipality of Fortín, Veracruz, […]
"A team from Repórter Brasil was waiting for an answer to a request for an interview at the headquarters of the British mining company Brazil Iron, in Piatã (Brazil), when it was approached by two military police officers on March, 28, because the journalists had allegedly invaded private property. As the crime did not take […]
"President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed this Tuesday, March 29, that a debate be held to analyze the role of the media and social networks, since he assured that they are attacking his government. He denied that he is generating censorship, since he stressed that he's only responding to attacks of his opponents: 'There's no […]
"The Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF) and the Pulitzer Center are opening a new, special call for grant applications. Journalists, editors, and independent media organizations are invited to submit a proposal on the impact of Brazil’s elections on the Amazon rainforest. The projects should consider the intersection of upcoming elections for president and Congress and […]
"Journalists from EL UNIVERSAL and environmental protection activists were attacked and threatened with death by an armed group while documenting the extraction of tepetate (brittle volcanic rock) on the Tecalco-Chiconautla hill, in San Pablo Tecalco, in the municipality of Tecámac, State of Mexico. The tepetate was destined to consolidate the infrastructure of the new Felipe […]
"The Association of Argentine Journalistic Organizations (ADEPA) and the Argentine Journalism Forum (FOPEA) expressed their concern tonight about the Government's initiative through which it would aim to regulate opinions on social media. Through communiqués, both entities criticized the declarations of the Secretary of Strategic Affairs, Gustavo Beliz, and warned that "this type of initiative implies […]
“A statement from the Board for the Safety of Journalists of Paraguay said the investigation of the crime of Sandro Saúl Sánchez Benítez, 38, which happened on March 16 in Pedro Juan Caballero, in the Department of Amambay, is essential. The victim was shot dead three times by a lone motorcyclist. Sandro Saúl Sánchez was […]
"The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, with a large pro-government majority, decreed an exceptional regime this Sunday, March 27, as a result of an 'excessive increase' in homicides attributed to gangs and that claimed the lives of 76 people in two days, which is a record in the country's recent history. [...] The Legislative body, […]
"Attacks on the press continue. This Monday, March 28, a journalist from Latina (channel 2) was attacked by an unknown person who was part of the protest against Pedro Castillo. This individual, who was wearing a black T-shirt and a hat, had a yellow pennant in his hand and used the stick that held this […]
"Nicaraguan authorities should release publisher Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro from prison immediately, and should ensure that members of the press do not face criminal penalties for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Wednesday, March 23, at the end of a three-day closed-door trial, a judge in a Managua court found Holmann, […]