"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 […]
"Four unidentified men invaded a radio studio located in the municipality of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, in Agreste de Pernambuco, [Brazil], on Tuesday night (April 6, 2021). On the occasion, the men, who declare themselves supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro, threatened to attack radio broadcaster Júnior Albuquerque after he criticized the federal government's health policy […]
"Quatro homens, que não tiveram identidade revelada, invadiram um estúdio de rádio localizado no município de Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, no Agreste de Pernambuco, na noite desta terça-feira (6). Na ocasião, os homens, que se declaram apoiadores do presidente Jair Bolsonaro (sem partido), ameaçaram agredir o radialista Júnior Albuquerque, depois que ele fez críticas à […]
"On March 30, near the village of Santa Bárbara, about five miles northeast of the capital, La Paz, a group of truck drivers abducted, assaulted, and robbed Guzmán, a freelance reporter on assignment for the privately owned broadcaster Radio FM Bolivia, according to Guzmán and Radio FM Bolivia news director Galo Hubner, both of whom […]
“Although last February, the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice [of Colombia] had freed journalist Vicky Dávila, as well as TV network RCN, from having to pay compensation in favor of retired colonel Jorge Hilario Estupiñán, now the Civil Chamber of the high court reversed that decision and left the reparation order intact […]
"In 2017, the National Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE, for its acronym in Spanish) asked the Minister of the Court of Appeals, Juan Poblete, to authorize the telephone tapping of a foreign agent who was looking for 'strategic antecedents about the Chilean Army.' The magistrate approved it, without knowing that the cell phone number written in […]
“Five years ago today, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners around the globe began publishing an investigation that would become a byword for exposing financial chicanery and political corruption: The Panama Papers. […] Just as Watergate became both a landmark in the history of journalism and a shorthand for […]
"After a report in which the elected mayor (of the party Nuevas Ideas) of Conchagua, in La Unión, is questioned, a journalist from Revista Factum, Bryan Avelar, was threatened with death by a user on social networks. The Salvadoran Association of Journalists (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) denounced the incident and stated that the […]
Updated entry: "However, this Thursday [April 1] Venezuelan journalists Luis Gonzalo Pérez and Rafael Hernández were released, more than 24 hours after they were detained. The alarms went off at night, after having lost communication with all of them. After more than 20 hours without communication, the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP, for its […]