"Journalist Sebastiana Barráez denounced that a judge threatened to arrest her for reporting on the case of the Venezuelan ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, who has filed a lawsuit for the custody of his children. In videos uploaded to her social media, the Venezuelan journalist pointed out that the threats come from Judge Jorge Luis Devenish […]
"Independent journalists and non-governmental organizations showed concern for the consequences of the approval of the new Social Communication Law, which will be voted this Thursday [May 25] in an extraordinary session of the Cuban Parliament. There are fears that this law will impose additional restrictions on digital media not aligned with the government that still […]
"The National Association of Bolivian Journalists (ANPB, by its Spanish) asked the government on Wednesday [May 17] to run an investigation to find the material and intellectual authors of a digital harassment campaign against journalist Andrés Gómez. He denounced a corruption case involving the former Minister of Environment and Water, Juan Santos Cruz on May […]
"Journalist Griselda Blanco, who had revealed [alleged] police abuse in the province of Corrientes, was found beaten and hanged, police sources in Argentina reported Sunday [May 21, 2023]. Her ex-partner was arrested Sunday on suspicion of femicide, but the family links the crime to Blanco's revelations. She was 45 years old. [...] Lautaro Cesani, 25, […]
"Media and communication professionals from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain still have time to submit their work for the IAPA Excellence in Journalism Awards 2023 competition. Deadline is June 30. The competition features 14 categories for works published in Spanish, English, and Portuguese since July 1, 2022, in print media, digital platforms, […]
"Three individuals allegedly involved in the murder of journalist María Elena Ferral Hernández in Papantla, Mexico, have been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The sentence was handed down by a judge from the Poza Rica Judicial District following a more than two-hour-long hearing on the night of Wednesday, May 17, 2023. The crime was […]
"A Guatemalan court suspended this Wednesday [May 17] the start of deliberations against four agents of the National Civil Police (PNC, by its Spanish acronym), accused of the illegal arrest of community journalist Norma Sancir in 2014, due to the fact that one of the accused did not show up. Police agent Marcelina López was […]
"We celebrate the recent ruling T-087 of 2023 of the Constitutional Court that recognizes online violence against women journalists and establishes responsibilities to prevent and punish it. This ruling is the product of a tutela action filed by Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP, by its Spanish acronym) in October 2020, in which we […]
"In the last ten days, at least four journalists in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula have received death threats through platforms and social media. The increase in threats and intimidation against journalists and media outlets is produced by unknown persons who have said to be against the opinions issued and the work of these communicators. […]
"Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was nationally and internationally recognized for his crónicas and investigations, in which he reported the violence in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He practiced journalism in the midst of the prevailing violence in Mexico and confronted, through his pen, corruption, political power and drug trafficking. For Javier, self-censorship was never […]
"On May 17, the trial will begin against three agents and a former commissioner of the National Civil Police of Guatemala for the illegal detention of journalist Norma Sancir, on Sept. 18, 2014. Sancir was covering a demonstration of the Mayan Ch'orti' people in the municipality of Camotán. They were demanding the approval of the […]
"On May 16, a trial begins against Marco Javier Morantes Pico, the guard who twenty-three years ago received journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima in La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. That was the starting point for her subsequent kidnapping, torture, and sexual violence in retaliation for her journalistic work. Although the crime happened more than two […]