"On March 11, [César Acuña Peralta], a former mayor, governor, and congressman who is running for president in Peru’s April 11 election, filed a trademark infringement complaint to stop sales of [Christopher] Acosta’s book, Money Like Popcorn: Secrets, Impunity, and the Fortune of César Acuña, according to news reports and Acosta, who spoke to CPJ […]
"[Jorge Molontzín Centlal] a reporter with the magazine Confidencial, went missing on March 10 while he was driving near the municipality of Santa Ana, in the northern state of Sonora, according to a statement published by Confidencial on March 17. Confidencial editor José Alfredo Gaston Gastelum told CPJ in a phone interview that he last […]
"Journalist Karla María Pérez González, who was expelled from the journalism degree at the Central University of Las Villas in 2017, was prevented from traveling to Cuba this Thursday [March 18] by the immigration authorities of the Cuban regime. [...] This is the first time that Pérez González has tried to return to the island, […]
“Human rights defenders, journalists, farmers and political prisoners – in the last six days – denounce a new repressive escalation of the Daniel Ortega regime through the police and supporters of the Sandinista Front, who continue to carry out sieges, retentions, criminalizations, threats and the impediment of political meetings. The complaints made on social networks […]
"Serious abuses of artistic expressions due to protest, lack of media pluralism in the treatment of social revolt and pressure on media about their work to inform are part of the contents of 'Report 2020: Freedom of Expression in Chile.' [...] This third report classified four categories of irregularities related to the violation of fundamental […]
“The guild of women journalists of El Salvador expressed this Friday [March 19] its rejection of a statement supposedly given by a female judge in a criminal proceeding prompted by a colleague and that, in its opinion, normalizes sexual harassment. [...] The controversy came after the initial hearing in the criminal process Jaime Perla faced […]
"At dawn on March 17, 2021, in Olímpia, a city in the north of São Paulo, there was a fire at the headquarters of newspaper Folha da Região. The police suspect that the act was a response to the positioning of the outlet in defense of scientific and legal measures to confront the pandemic. The […]
"Today [March 16] we are launching the second Innovation Challenge of the Google News Initiative (GNI Innovation Challenge) for Latin America, which will finance projects focused on new business models and new news products, to move towards a more sustainable and diverse ecosystem. The Innovation Challenge is a program of the Google News Initiative, which […]
"On Monday [March 15], the repressive organs of the regime in Santa Clara raided the headquarters and confiscated the working equipment of the small newspaper 'Páginas Villareñas,' belonging to the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish), based in Miami. [...] Reporters Leticia Torres, Raíza López, Yoandy […]
"Chequeado, which has coordinated the LatamChequea network since 2014, will work for a year with 22 fact-checking organizations in the region, Spain and Portugal, and with the support of the Google News Initiative, on a series of actions to counter disinformation about [COVID-19] vaccines. Much of the disinformations crosses borders and is repeated from one […]
"A protest carried out this Monday (March 15) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, culminated in censorship of the work of the press, with violent attacks against a photographer-reporter from the Estado de Minas (...) The group tried to prevent the journalist from filming and photographing the act, on the grounds that he is a 'communist.' The […]
"A protest carried out this Monday (March 15) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, culminated in censorship of the work of the press, with violent attacks against a photographer-reporter from the Estado de Minas (...) The group tried to prevent the journalist from filming and photographing the act, on the grounds that he is a 'communist.' The […]