"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the murders of two journalists in recent hours, one in Mexico and the other in Haiti. The organization lamented the failure of governments to adopt more efficient measures to protect journalists and urged the international community to continue denouncing the violence and impunity affecting journalists in Latin America. […]
"Agência Pública has open enrollment for the 15th edition of its journalism micro-grants program, this time aimed at indigenous reporters. Five grants of R$ 7,500 (around USD $1,450) will be distributed to the best proposals that address threats to indigenous lands and peoples [in Brazil]." Read the original story (in Portuguese)
"Jorge Luis Camero Zazueta, nicknamed El Choche, was shot to death on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Libertad neighborhood in Sonora. The journalist worked for the portal El Informativo and until two weeks ago he worked as private secretary to Mayor Luis Fuentes Aguilar at the Empalme City Hall. (...) According to local media, the […]
"Authorities in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state should not pursue criminal defamation charges against journalist Thiago Herdy, and should refrain from criminally investigating journalists in retaliation for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On February 16, Minas Gerais state Attorney General Jarbas Soares Júnior filed a criminal complaint and a civil lawsuit against […]
"Haitian police on Wednesday opened fire on demonstrators demanding higher wages and killed a reporter, according to witnesses and a hospital official in the impoverished Caribbean island nation. Two other journalists were shot and wounded at the scene in Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of Haitians gathered to call for a higher minimum wage than the one […]
"Mexican television host and model Michelle Pérez Tadeo, known as Michelle Simon, was found dead this Tuesday, Feb. 22 in Santo Tomás Ajusco, in the Tlalpan district (in the southern part of Mexico City), as reported by authorities. The Prosecutor's Office of Mexico City is already investigating the case as a femicide although it does […]
"The author of the controversial 'ChuzaDAS' investigative report said through his Twitter account he had suffered an attack in Bogotá, Colombia, in which his security detail 'had to draw their weapons.' The events took place on Wed. Feb. 23, at the journalist's home. (...) Martínez is an investigative journalist. He contributes to the web portal La […]
"Cuban authorities restored on Monday, Feb. 21 the accreditations of three journalists from the EFE agency team in Cuba, withdrawn in November 2021. This is a decisive step towards the normalization of the journalistic activity of the Spanish agency on the island. The International Press Center (CPI) took this step after a meeting in Havana […]
"Cuban journalists Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez received a humanitarian visa in Mexico, reported on Feb. 18 the National Migration Institute (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior. […] Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez were forced to leave Cuba in January, after the regime threatened Rodríguez with imprisonment and prosecution for […]
"The organization of Independent Journalists and Communicators of Nicaragua (PIN) denounced the sentence against sports journalist and political prisoner Miguel Mendoza Urbina, arguing that it lacks a legal basis and therefore must be annulled. The Judiciary sentenced the opposition member to nine years in prison and disqualified him from holding public office. In a statement […]
"Police officers from the 8th Precinct of the Department of Homicide and Protection of Persons (DHPP) arrested on Feb. 11, 2022 a man who was hiding in a house in the Pirambu neighborhood, in Fortaleza, Brazil, with 43 bags of marijuana. Thiago de Sousa Barros, 20, was named by a witness as the person who […]
"Brazilian businessman Luiz Eduardo Auricchio Bottura found an ingenious way to face the lawsuits of hundreds of customers to whom he sold his products and did not deliver. The daring engineer, trained in law, sued them all. He created a hell of a mess and came out on top. Bottura's trick, involved in thousands of […]