"The writer, journalist and essayist Jorge Fernández Díaz won the Cavia Prize, awarded by the Spanish newspaper ABC for journalistic works, for an article published in the Argentine newspaper La Nación titled 'Welcome to Right-Wing Populism' ['Bienvenidos al populismo de derecha'], where he delivers strong criticism of Javier Milei. The award, which has been given […]
"On his social media this Wednesday [May 38], independent Cuban journalist José Luis Tan Estrada announced his arrival in Mexico after a 45-day journey that included crossing the Darién jungle, five months after State Security forced him to leave the island. 'After crossing the dangerous Darién jungle, traveling through more than ten countries by land, […]
"Luis Augusto Carneiro da Costa, a 46-year-old journalist, was brutally murdered on May 27 by two hooded men who stormed into the community radio studio where he was presenting a popular show focused on local issues. The assailants fired several shots, instantly killing the journalist. With over twenty years of experience in local journalism and […]
"A journalist from Zero Hora —the highest-circulation daily newspaper in southern Brazil—has been ordered to pay 600,000 reais [about US$105,000] in damages after publishing information about the earnings of Judge Iris Helena Medeiros Nogueira, a magistrate of the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. On Thursday, May, 22, the Brazilian Association of […]
"A group of seven Nicaraguan journalists, exiled in Costa Rica, have requested the Spanish government grant them Spanish nationality, claiming they have been rendered de facto stateless by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. The request was submitted on May 19 to the Spanish consul in Costa Rica, the Madrid Press Association (APM, […]
"A journalist and a cameraman from news portal Urgente.bo [Bolivia] were forced by vendors in the town of Desaguadero, on the border between Bolivia and Peru, to erase images under threat of being thrown into a river. The aggression and censorship of journalistic work took place on Friday, May 23, about 73 miles west of […]
"The Secretary of Government of Veracruz [Mexico], Ricardo Ahued Bardahuil confirmed that two people have been identified after the murder of journalist Avisack Douglas, who was shot in an attack at campaign headquarters for the Movimiento Ciudadano candidate for mayor for [the city of] Juan Rodríguez Clara [in Veracruz, Mexico]. 'Without getting ahead of the […]
"This Monday [May 26], the regime of Daniel Ortega dissolved another 15 non-profit organizations, among them the historic Nicaraguan Association of Journalists (UPN, for its initials in Spanish), created in 1979 after the triumph of the Sandinista revolution. With this new repressive wave, more than 5,670 NGOs have now been cancelled since December 2018, as […]
"The National Association of Press Workers (SNTP, for its Spanish acronym) denounced this Friday [May 23] the detention of journalist and university professor Carlos Marcano, after Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello accused him of being part of an alleged plot against the regional and legislative elections scheduled for this Sunday [May 25]. According to what was […]
"Bibian Hernández, a lawyer who, according to the [Ecuador] Attorney General's Office, may be involved in money laundering, has decided to begin two legal actions for moral damages against columnists Martin Pallares and Roberto Aguilar, and another legal action for slander against journalist Sara Ortiz. [...] The lawsuit against Aguilar and Pallares was motivated by […]
"Hours after revealing that [Argentina’s] State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE, for its initials in Spanish) had approved a National Intelligence Plan opening the door for the collection and analysis of information on journalists, economists and other ‘actors’ seen as potentially undermining public confidence in government officials or ‘manipulating’ public opinion, journalist Hugo Alconada Mon was targeted […]
Magistrate Magda Zulema Mosri Gutiérrez, candidate for minister of Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), was accused of threatening journalist Álvaro Delgado Gómez with the phrase “This is as far as you go” ("hasta aquí llegaste") on the social media platform X after the journalist publicly pointed out that she is the […]