"The Inter-American Commission has an internship program that is managed in conjunction with the OAS Internship Program. It gives young students and those recently graduated from the OAS Member States the opportunity to learn about the IACHR and work in applying the protection mechanisms provided by the inter-American human rights system. One of the benefits […]
“The National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI, for its acronym in Spanish) instructed the Attorney General of the Republic [of Mexico] to provide the public version of the investigation folder for the homicide of journalist Regina Martínez, who was assassinated on April 28, 2012, when she was a […]
“The journalist Juan Sarmiento was released this morning [Feb. 7] by the Judge of the Criminal Judicial Unit of Cantón Tena, Luis Eduardo Mendoza Chávez, after the prescription of a sentence against him. The journalist was sentenced by the Ecuadorian justice to 10 days in prison, to the payment of 25 percent of a Unified […]
“The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) adopted Resolution 12/2021 on Jan. 4, 2021, by which it granted precautionary measures in favor of 34 identified members of the El Faro digital newspaper in El Salvador, after considering that they are in a situation of gravity and urgency of risk of irreparable damage to their rights. […]
"The Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting independent journalism and press freedom in Nicaragua, announced this Friday, Feb. 5, that it will cease operations because they will not be subject to the Foreign Agents Law approved by the Assembly last October. [...] The Ministry of the Interior (Migob, for its acronym […]
“Hours after the director of Radio Darío, businessman Aníbal Toruño, denounced –in an international news network– violations of press freedom in Nicaragua, police of President Daniel Ortega's regime raided his home for the third time in two months. The officers broke into the building at approximately ten in the morning, when there was no one […]
"Como en el resto del mundo, la credibilidad en las noticias en América Latina ha disminuido en los últimos años. Pero los datos de encuestas hechas en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y México muestran que los niveles de confianza varían significativamente de un contexto nacional a otro y pueden relacionarse con una variedad de fenómenos, desde […]
"As in the rest of the world, trust in news in Latin America has declined in recent years. But survey data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico show that trust levels vary significantly from one national context to another and can relate to a variety of phenomena, from the shortcomings of journalism itself to social unrest […]
"As in the rest of the world, trust in news in Latin America has declined in recent years. But survey data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico show that trust levels vary significantly from one national context to another and can relate to a variety of phenomena, from the shortcomings of journalism itself to social unrest […]
“Representatives of the Attorney General's Office detained the former governor of Puebla, Mario Marín, at an address in Acapulco, Guerrero. [...] The arrest warrant against the former governor is for the alleged crime of torture to the detriment of journalist Lydia Cacho and was issued by the first Unitary Court in Quintana Roo, with which […]