"Journalist Saúl Ortega Ortiz was found dead inside a home in the municipality of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, on Monday, June 2. According to the report from the Attorney General's Office of the State of Zacatecas, the incident was a suicide, which they learned of around 8:20 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene, authorities located the man's […]
“In response to repeated police attacks on press workers carrying out their jobs, the Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBA), a member of the Argentine Federation of Press Workers (FATPREN), with support from the International Federation of Journalists and the Democracy at Work program, has acquired personal protective equipment to distribute to self-managed media outlets and […]
“The AFP news agency and Chilean fact-checking outlet Mala Espina on Tuesday launched Comprueba, a collaborative journalism alliance that brings together more than 40 media outlets to fight disinformation ahead of Chile’s general elections on Nov. 16. Comprueba’s goal is to produce articles that debunk falsehoods circulating on social media throughout the electoral process. The […]
"The killing of journalist Javier Antonio Hércules Salinas has sparked widespread criticism across Honduran society, particularly targeting the Protection Mechanism overseen by the Secretariat of Human Rights (SEDH for its initials in Spanish). It was the minister of the SEDH, Héctor Becerra, who revealed that Hércules had been granted five protection measures by the government’s […]
"The National Association of Journalists (CNP, for its Spanish acronym) of Venezuela has made an urgent call for the release of 16 press workers detained in the context of political instability following the elections held in July last year. These elections gave a disputed victory to President Nicolás Maduro and, as a result, left a […]
"Radio Fides and Agencia de Noticias Fides journalist David Pizarro was attacked on Thursday, May 29, with pepper spray by a riot police officer while he was recording images of the arrest of demonstrators on Belisario Salinas street in La Paz, Bolivia. Pizarro, along with other reporters, was reporting for his media outlet on the […]
"ARTICLE 19 condemns the arbitrary detention of Carlos Milanés, an independent journalist for ADN Cuba, Cubanet and Radio Martí, on May 25 this year in Havana, by State Security agents. The incident was compounded by multiple aggressions such as threats of disappearance, physical aggressions, a raid on his home and the destruction of several personal […]
"Protests in Argentina are becoming the scene of widespread repression, with members of the press being targeted by the country's armed forces. Public security actors, who should protect and guarantee security during peaceful demonstrations, are instead deliberately obstructing press coverage through the use of violence. Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its initials in French) condemns […]
"A few hours before the beginning of the silent period priors to elections [...] for mayoral candidates in [the Mexican state of] Veracruz [on May 29], journalist Raymundo García García, a contributor to [the newspaper] El Mundo de Orizaba, was the target of anonymous threats. The intimidations, which were also directed at his family, were […]
Renowned radio host, sports commentator and former footballer Carlos Gilberto Aguirre was fatally stabbed in the early hours of Sunday, June 1, in the municipality of Juticalpa, Honduras. El Heraldo newspaper confirmed through sources at the Public Prosecutor’s morgue that Aguirre died from multiple stab wounds. So far, the perpetrators and motives behind the crime […]
"Abraji reported that it contacted Governor Tarcísio de Freitas and the Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, Guilherme Derrite, by means of an official letter, to repudiate and demand action regarding allegations of restrictions on press freedom during coverage of the eviction of the Moinho Favela, in the capital. Last week, this Association and […]
"The Union of Professional Journalists of the Federal District (SJPDF, for its initials in Portuguese) and the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ) vehemently repudiate the extrajudicial harassment by the Canadian mining company Sigma Lithium S.A. that seeks to censor the work of independent journalism promoted by the Mining Observatory, an organization based in Brasília. The […]