"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to "immediately suspend the attacks and insults" against journalists, warning that these attacks "from the pinnacle of power encourage violence against the press." Through a press release, the organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of press freedom also made public its rejection […]
"A news team was attacked in the early hours of Monday Feb. 14, in front of the 2nd Sectional Police Station in Campinas, in Southeaster Brazil. A cameraman from TV Thati, an affiliate of Rede Record in the metropolis, was run over on purpose while recording with the station's reporter. He had light bruises. The […]
"The journalist Ronald Moya asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CourtIDH) on Monday Feb. 14 to dictate a sentence against Costa Rican because of the application of a civil sanction by the courts against him, a colleague and the newspaper La Nación, for crimes against honor following the publication of a news article. 'I […]
"The State Attorney General's Office announced onFeb. 14, that it opened an investigation ex officio for the alleged crime of sexual harassment of sports journalists on a radio station in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The announcement of this investigation comes after the journalist María Soledad Reyes denounced on her social media that in a sports station in […]
"Around 300 journalists were in front of the facilities of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) to demand that the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador act against the attacks and murders that have already claimed the lives of six journalists so far in 2022. Under the slogans 'journalism at risk' and 'you can't […]
"'And now, who's next?... We no longer want to come and bury another colleague. We are fed up with speeches, we demand a law that protects us. It is not fair to take our lives for denouncing corruption,' Oaxaca Isthmus journalist Rodolfo Canseco said. Family, friends and colleagues said goodbye on Feb. 13 at the […]
"The Judiciary permanently shelved the last defamation complaint filed by the Peruvian American citizen Miguel Arévalo Ramírez, known as 'Eteco,' in the files of the Anti-Drug Police and the Prosecutor's Office, against Óscar Castilla, executive director of OjoPúblico. In 2016, Castilla published an investigative journalistic series about Arévalo's judicial history. Since 2017, Arévalo filed a series […]
"The first vice president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, warned that he will now go after La Patilla, after having taken over the facilities of the El Nacional newspaper in Los Cortijos. He repeated that he would use the facilities to create a university dedicated to communication. During his program Con el mazo dando, Cabello […]
"Journalism in Mexico is once again in mourning. This Thursday [02/10], journalist Heber López Vásquez, a reporter in the port of Salina Cruz, in the state of Oaxaca, was shot dead in his home, a continuing pattern. López Vásquez, 39, was director of the local page RCP Noticias in Oaxaca, and his death occurred after […]
"The humanitarian organization Cristosal called on the Court of Accounts of El Salvador on Feb. 8 to carry out 'a special examination of the use of public funds' by the Presidency of the Republic, the State Intelligence Agency (OIE, by its Spanish acronym ), as well as the Ministries of Security and Defense in response […]