"The president of EFE, Gabriela Cañas, lamented this Jan. 12 that the Cuban government seems to be 'kicking out' this media outlet by withdrawing accreditation from its journalists in Havana. Cañas warned that the Spanish news agency is beginning to consider whether to stay on the island. Cañas made these statements when speaking at a […]
"The delegations of the United Nations Organization (UN), European Union (EU) and the Embassies of the United States, United Kingdom and Canada in Peru reassured on Nov. 11 that they would defend freedom of expression after the controversial conviction for defamation handed down by a judge against journalist Christopher Acosta and editor Jerónimo Pimentel. The […]
"The plenary session of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Ecuador began this Jan. 11 the first of two debates on the bill known as the Organic Guarantee, Promotion and Protection of Freedom of the Press, Opinion, and Expression and of Communication. The opinion was divided between the different political groups. The debate in the legal […]
"Editor-in-chief of the website Intercept Brasil, journalist Leandro Demori was threatened by a man this Sunday, Jan. 9, while walking through a tourist neighborhood with his wife and three-year-old son, in Balneário Camboriú. […] Abraji vehemently condemns the threat suffered by Leandro Demori, which occurred in a moment of fragility, when the journalist was with […]
"Another one of the celebrities who were also named in the book [Emma and the other narco ladies, 2021, available in Spanish] was Andrés García, a consecrated actor and national cinema star. In Hernández's journalistic work, García is said to hold alleged criminal ties with Héctor Beltrán Leyva, the former founder and leader of the […]
"In 2021, nine journalists were killed in Mexico. This number ranks the country as the deadliest in the world for the press, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). [...] In 2021, [Mexico] was the sixth country with the most unsolved crimes; the five [countries] at the top are at war. 'The conclusion after […]
"In the state of Barinas [Venezuela] this Sunday, Jan. 9, the repetition of the regional elections of November 21 was held. During the day, we registered four cases against journalists and the media that correspond to five violations of freedom of expression. On this occasion, intimidation and censorship were the most frequent. The [military deployment […]
"After a 37-year wait, the oral trial will begin for the disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala Sulca, from radio Huanta 2000 and correspondent for the newspaper La República in Huanta (Ayacucho, Peru). He was last seen on Aug. 2, 1984 when he entered the navy barracks, stationed in the province's Municipal Stadium. The Fourth National […]
"Two Cuban journalists who remained stranded for more than 30 hours at the San Salvador International Airport have been admitted to the Central American country by the government of President Nayib Bukele, after the regime of Daniel Ortega, an ally of Havana, rejected their entry to Nicaragua. Independent reporters Esteban Rodríguez and Héctor Luis Valdés […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and the Meta Journalism Project opened, on Jan. 5, registration for the program Accelerating Digital Transformation, aimed at professionals and students who have participated in one of the three editions of Abraji's local journalism courses. The (previous) trainings addressed both editorial production and sustainability issues and were held between 2019 and […]
"The Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-DH) called on Jan. 4, National Journalist Day in this country, to guarantee conditions of freedom and security for the work of information professionals. In a statement, UN-DH said that in addition to recognizing those who practice journalism, 'it is essential to […]
"With three groups detected as aggressors, 93 attacks and the murder of a journalist, it is how the State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP) [in the state of Veracruz] closed its statistics for 2021, Israel Hernández Sosa, executive secretary of CEAPP, said. He commented that organized crime occupies a high percentage within […]