"Mexican Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal’s proposed bill to regulate social media networks could severely restrict free speech in Mexico, Human Rights Watch said today. The bill would require companies to censor broadly defined categories of online content in violation of international norms currently in force. Senator Monreal should withdraw his proposal." Read original article
"El proyecto legislativo para regular redes sociales que propuso el líder de la mayoría en el Senado mexicano, Ricardo Monreal, podría limitar gravemente la libertad de expresión en México, señaló hoy Human Rights Watch. El proyecto exigiría a las empresas censurar categorías amplísimas de contenidos en línea, lo cual contraviene las normas internacionales actualmente en […]
“Officers of the sanctioned Sandinista police seized the cell phone of journalist Carlos Larios of newspaper La Prensa when he was covering the siege and persecution of presidential candidates of Nicaragua, Medardo Mairena, George Henríquez and Luis Fley, who were detained at the international airport. 'I came to the Managua international airport to cover the […]
“Three years ago, Ecuadoran President Lenín Moreno confirmed the deaths of Javier Ortega, Paúl Rivas and Efraín Segarra, journalistic team of the newspaper El Comercio. During these years, the Colombian State has repeatedly failed the families of the victims. Truth, justice and reparation are absent in this case. The [Colombian] Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, […]
“[…] Given the crisis that hit the media industry more than a decade ago, it is more difficult for [local media] to create sustainable business models and keep up with digital tools that provide new narrative formats and resources to connect with their audiences. To support them in this process, the Gabo Foundation and the […]
“One year since the arrival of the pandemic in the Amazon, the situation has become dramatic for Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. The region has also become the focus of coronavirus mutations, exposing populations and the environment to even worse risks. […] In response to the severe impact of the pandemic, the Amazonia Rainforest Journalism […]
"The number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, launched a threat this Wednesday [April 7] against Venezuelan journalists who want to cover the armed conflict that is unfolding in the border state of Apure. 'Whoever enters there to play the enemy's game must be considered an enemy. They are waiting for some Venezuelans to be murdered […]
"The government channel Bolivia TV denounced that two of its workers, a journalist and a cameraman, were attacked the day before by militants from the Chuquisaca Somos Todos (CST) group when they tried to cover an electoral campaign in the city of Sucre. The channel denounced that the incident prevented journalist Kevin Revollo and cameraman […]
"Sympathizers of the Cuban regime have verbally and physically assaulted the minor children of Martha Liset Sánchez and Alberto Corzo, who are journalists from the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish), and also run the community media outlet Cocodrillo Callejero. The complaint was published on the ICLEP […]
"Faced with the 2021 Elections [in Mexico], independent and digital native media outlets in Chihuahua and Sinaloa, together with Animal Político, launch a collaborative fact-checking initiative, which was created to combat false or inaccurate content that circulates in the context of state and federal elections. [...] This effort brings together the newsrooms of La Verdad, […]
"The Supreme Court of Justice [of Panama] confirmed a resolution of the First Superior Court of Justice related to the temporary prohibition issued by a judge of guarantees against the newspaper La Prensa, stopping them from investigating or publishing photos about the criminal case of lawyer Janio Lescure Sánchez, investigated for the alleged purchase and […]
" Mexican journalist Francisco Canul Cauich, who was one of the first people to report and make public the case of Víctoria Salazar, the woman killed by police in Tulum, Quintana Roo, denounced that his house was raided. The events occurred on April 4, when the journalist was away from his home. He denounced that […]