"Wilson Acosta Marques, alleged material author in the murder of Paraguayan journalist Pablo Medina and his assistant Antonia Almada, which occurred in October 2014, was captured by Brazilian authorities in the state of Mato Grosso, about 1,000 kilometers from Amambay, as confirmed by Interpol Paraguay...The man detained was the one who wielded and fired the […]
"The State Attorney General arrested Omar Alfredo A.O. alias 'El Fredy,' another priority objective for the authorities of the three levels of government, who is linked to at least 50 homicides that occurred in the cities of Juárez and Chihuahua ... 'El Fredy' is credited with orchestrating an assault armed against one of his 'opponents,' […]
"María Fernanda de Luna, daughter of the journalist María Elena Ferral, murdered last March in the Mexican state of Veracruz (east), denounced this Sunday that she was the victim of an armed attack, from which she was unharmed. 'Today at 10:40 in the morning (15:00 GMT), I was the victim of an attack in which […]
"A federal judge convicted Juan Carlos Moreno Ochoa, El Larry or El WA, of being a co-participant in the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach Velducea, correspondent for La Jornada in Chihuahua, on March 23, 2017. El Larry was arrested in December 2017 by elements of the Federal Police in an operation carried out in Etchojoa, […]
"The Google News Initiative wants to help by launching a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to deliver urgent aid to thousands of small, medium and local news publishers globally. The funding is open to news organizations producing original news for local communities during this time of crisis, and will range from the low thousands of dollars […]
"The Colombian National Protection Unit announced that it would be suspending the country’s Risk Assessment and Protection Measures Recommendation Committee, which grants protective measures to journalists, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic." Read original article
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights approved the Reparation Agreement between the Colombian state and the Inter-American Press Association, IAPA, after claiming Colombia's international responsibility for the murder of journalist and columnist Gerardo Bedoya Borrero that occurred in Cali, Colombia on March 21, 1997." Read original article (Spanish)
"Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui denounced this Wednesday that she suffered a 'virulent' attack on social networks directed against her and her son, due to her work as a journalist. In addition, due to the attacks against her person and her family, the communicator had to clarify issues in her personal life." Read original article (Spanish)
"A group of police and security agents from Catacaos forcibly apprehended journalist Ralph Zapata, who coordinated the regional edition of Peruvian site Ojo Público, from his home. The police transferred him violently to the La Legua Police Station on the grounds that he had violated the curfew. Ojo Público reported the incident to the authorities […]
"The Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Journalists (FEPALC, for its acronym in Spanish) demands governments and journalistic companies take extreme health measures in calls for press conferences (social distancing), to provide basic care instruments (masks and gloves by protocol in some of the countries), to immediately implement teleworking in newsrooms, and invokes our colleagues […]