"Mexico's freedom of information body INAI said on Thursday it was initiating an investigation after the country's president disclosed the phone number of a New York Times journalist looking into alleged ties between his allies and drug cartels. The disclosure took place during President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily news conference. [...] 'This is a […]
“A Guatemalan judge suspended the hearing [on Feb. 21] in which it was to be decided whether journalist José Rubén Zamora goes to a second trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation against him for which he was already sentenced to six years in prison. The head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Corruption, Rafael Curruchiche, […]
“On Wednesday [Feb. 21], the Ecuadoran prosecutor's office announced terrorism charges against someone with the alias 'Negro Willie' as the main suspect in the violent armed occupation of a television channel in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Jan. 9. The public prosecutor's office, in a statement, indicated that the suspect identified as William Joffre […]
“The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) denounces the progression -- despite the legal barriers that protect journalism -- of the judicial process filed by businessman Yakov Fauster against media outlet El Diario de Hoy (EDH) and against journalist Jorge Beltrán Luna. This is a case that began in […]
“Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program has become an industry standard for excellence. Last year, the awards team received nearly 1,100 entries, from 29 countries on six continents. Winners […]
"The Cuban Institute for Freedoms of Expression and Press (ICLEP, by its acronym in Spanish) denounced a cyber attack on its website, which occurred on Wednesday [Feb. 14]. […] The non-profit, founded in 2012, reported that the perpetrators managed to breach the server's security protocol, infiltrate files, change the configuration and supplant the website with […]
A judge in Bogotá, Colombia, ordered journalist Daniel Coronell and the publisher Penguin Random House to eliminate information from the book "Los niños del Amazonas: 40 días perdidos en la selva" (The Children of the Amazon. 40 Days Lost in the Jungle), on the grounds that it allegedly violates the privacy of minors. The Foundation […]
"A Madrid court has acquitted journalist José Manzaneda of the crimes of defamation and hate after he was accused by the president of the association Prisoners Defenders, Javier Larrondo, a critic of the Cuban regime. The court determined that the journalist called Larrondo a 'war criminal' in an article in a metaphorical sense and within […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed concern over the use of civil and criminal lawsuits against two journalists from the Colombian digital media Volcánicas, with the alleged intention of obstructing journalistic investigations of public interest. The founding journalists of Volcánicas, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Matilde de los Milagros Londoño Jaramillo, published an investigation in June 2020 that collected anonymous […]
"The judiciary of the state of Bahia criminally condemned journalists Ailton São Paulo and Alana Rocha, who were exercising their profession. The action was filed by Daniela Cordeiro Nascimento, Guilherme Souza Tomasi and Ivina Adina Cordeiro Nascimento, who argued that they were victims of defamation for speeches made by presenters during the Gazeta Alerta program […]
"Journalist Andrés Salas, who was threatened in Morelos by a group of armed men, is preparing to leave Mexico, according to what the communicator of Noticias Cuautla said in a video. On Feb. 12, during a live broadcast, journalist Andrés Salas reported having been the victim of an attack on his vehicle, in which he […]
“The public prosecutor's office insists on persecuting journalists, while President Bernardo Arévalo assures that his government 'believes in freedom of the press.' According to the Association of Journalists of Guatemala (APG, for its acronym in Spanish), around 25 journalists are in exile due to censorship, attacks or persecution. In this adverse context, the conviction against […]