"In an increasingly fraught climate for independent media in Nicaragua, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the writers’ association PEN International call on the country’s legislators to reject a bill under which many journalists would have to register as 'foreign agents.' With its declared aim of 'preventing crimes against state security,' the proposed 'Law regulating foreign […]
“There are headlines that kill twice. Juliana Giraldo, a trans woman, was murdered in cold blood by a military officer on a Colombian highway on Sept. 24. The cries of pain from her husband explaining that 'we do not carry weapons, we do not carry anything, I did not do anything' swept the country in […]
“The Venezuelan Press and Society Institute (IPYS-Venezuela) published its most recent investigation ‘Atlas of Silence: The news deserts in Venezuela,’ in which it revealed that more than five million people live without access to sufficient media in the country. Through its national network of correspondents and the systematization of data, it analyzed the reality of […]
"This Monday morning, Honduran journalist Luis Alfonso Almendares (35) died after being the victim of a criminal attack that occurred while he broadcasted via Facebook Live in Comayagua, in the central area of the country." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"The Attorney General's Office of Colombia pronounced this Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, about the liberation of two defendants for murder of the journalistic team of the daily El Comercio. The entity questioned that "due to the congestion registered by the Criminal Court of Tumaco (Nariño)," Gustavo Alfonso Ospina and Gustavo Angulo Arboleda have been released. […]
"Journalists from the television stations Columbia, Repretel and Teletica were verbally and physically attacked on Aug. 25 while covering a protest held by Movimiento Rescate Nacional against the sanitary measures to contain the propagation of COVID-19, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The reporter Alejandro Arley, of Noticias Columbia, spoke about his experience on the Por […]
"Journalists from the television stations Columbia, Repretel and Teletica were verbally and physically attacked on Aug. 25 while they covered a protest held by the Movimiento Rescate Nacional against the sanitary measure to contain the propagation of COVID-19, in San Jose, Costa Rica. The reporter Alejandro Arley, of Noticias Columbia, spoke about his experience on […]
“The special commission that investigates the harassment of journalists and the media received representatives from El Faro and Mariana Belloso from La Prensa Gráfica. Specifically, the founder and director of the digital newspaper El Faro, Carlos Armando Dada, revealed to the deputies who are investigating the harassment of journalists and the media, that behind the […]
"Organizations and human rights defenders in Guatemala issued an alert this Wednesday about the detention of an indigenous journalist accused of 'sedition' in the north of the country and for an attack on two other female communicators in another incident that occurred in the west of the territory." Read the original article (in Spanish)
"Judge Deyanira Traña, in charge of the Bluefields Local Criminal Court, declared the journalist and editor-in-chief of Radio La Costeñísima, Kalúa Salazar, 'guilty' this Wednesday morning, Sept. 23, for the crime of calumnia (defamation), after publishing the report: 'Corruption is uncovered in the Mayor's Office of the El Rama municipality'... Salazar, upon leaving the Bluefields […]
"The Argentine Journalism Forum expresses its repudiation and concern over the arrest of the journalist Franco Cervera of FM 102.5 Radio Estación, from San Francisco, Córdoba. This Monday, the 21st, he was detained while he was reporting in front of the Border Police Station, Santa Fé, where a group of neighbors asked for the release […]
"Trafficker Elias Pereira da Silva, known as Elias Maluco, was found dead on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 22) at the Catanduvas Federal Penitentiary, in western Paraná, Brazil, according to information from the Penitentiary Department (Depen). According to Depen, the Federal Police was called in to conduct an investigation on the spot. The body will be taken […]