"Ensuring a safe environment for journalists remains a critical challenge for Latin America's democracies. Since 2000, at least 338 journalists have been killed in the region, highlighting the urgent need for protection mechanisms to counter systemic violence. In a new report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its initials in French) analyzed journalist protection programs in […]
"The situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Gang violence has reached unsustainable levels, endangering not only the lives of civilians but also the media's ability to report on the horrors in the country. [...] The press, essential to documenting the crisis and mobilizing international action, is now stymied by gang violence […]
“The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its initials in Spanish) denounced before the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders of the United Nations (UN) the arbitrary detention of community journalist Víctor Barahona, who's been held for more than 11 months in the context of a regime of exception, in […]
“Pope Francis held a private audience Monday [Dec. 9] with three journalists who have investigated scandals linked to the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana (SCV), a Catholic organization based in Peru. Paola Ugaz and Pedro Salinas have been the subject of multiple legal complaints and harassment on social media due to their reporting on the issue. […]
“This morning [Dec. 8], in a hospital in Guatemala City, journalist and writer Luis Antonio Aceituno Solórzano, cultural editor of [the independent media outlet] eP Investiga, died. Aceituno had been under observation for a heart condition and this morning doctors confirmed that his heart had stopped beating. The Guatemalan journalist, editor and writer dedicated his […]
"On Thursday, Dec. 5, the team of legal representatives of the Legal First Aid Clinic (CPAJ, for its initials in Spanish) of the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES), approached the Attorney General's Office (FGR) to verify the legal process against journalist Mónica Rodríguez and Steve Magaña, who were victims of an irregular raid […]
“Organizations Article 19 - Office for Mexico and Central America, and Comunicación e Información de la Mujer A.C. (CIMAC) make an urgent call to the authorities of the federal government [of Mexico] and the state of Morelos to safeguard the life and integrity of Yohali Reséndiz, writer and independent journalist, who was the victim of […]
"Sports journalist Marion Reimers obtained a 'historic' resolution from a judge that orders the federal mechanism for the protection of journalists to immediately give her protection measures against the digital violence that she has faced for 15 years as a sports communicator, the soccer commentator and her legal team announced this Thursday [Dec. 7]. 'There […]
"Noé Zavaleta, a journalist from Veracruz [Mexico] was abducted around 1:00 a.m. this Wednesday [Dec. 4] in Guadalajara, but he was released three hours later when confusion about his identity was clarified, reported journalist Ricardo Ravelo. [...] Ricardo Ravelo reported around 6:00 a.m. this Wednesday that Noé Zavaleta was released after the criminal group that […]
"Lawyer and journalist Édgar José Garay Álvarez sustained two gunshot wounds and was killed when he was traveling in a van through the site known as El Retén, near the Las Brujas airport, jurisdiction of Corozal (Sucre). For several years, Édgar Garay had dedicated himself to managing the Noti Sincelejo page, where he published controversial […]
"A group of 25 civil society organizations from seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Nicaragua) presented a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on trends in indirect censorship of freedom of expression in the region. At the hearing “Affectations on the Right to Freedom of Expression […]
A Uruguayan court ruled on Dec. 3 in favor of sports journalist Ana Inés Martínez against Channel 10. It upheld the journalist's claim for sexual harassment, but dismissed compensation for workplace harassment. Martínez alleged that she was fired from the news program Subrayado in December 2023 after having been a victim of sexual harassment and […]