"Peruvian journalist Carlos Cornejo denounced this Tues. (Jan. 31) that the state channel TV Peru 'had sent him home,' after having said that the death of anti-government demonstrator Víctor Santisteban in Lima this Saturday (Jan. 28) was a murder at the hands of the police. Cornejo said in his program broadcasted by TV Peru that, […]
"Journalist Rogério Florentino, from Cuiabá (capital of the state of Mato Grosso), is being targeted by abusive legal actions intended to harm the work of the press. Florentino is facing a criminal complaint filed by businessman Pedro Eugenio Gomes Procópio da Silva, owner of two mining companies operating in the city, Ofir Intermediações de Cuiabá […]
"This Tues. [Jan. 31], a Guatemalan court charged renowned journalist and main opponent of President Alejandro Giammattei, José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, for alleged obstruction of justice. This brings to two the number of criminal proceedings opened against the founder of El Periódico. Zamora Marroquín is also accused of money laundering, for which he has been […]
"The Constitutional Court [of Colombia] has just denied a tutela [legal remedy in the Colombian system for guaranteeing fundamental rights] filed by filmmaker Ciro Guerra against journalists Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Matilde de los Milagros. Said journalists published in June 2020 in the digital news site Volcanicas eight allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Guerra […]
"Chilean authorities should not contest journalist Felipe Soto Cortés’ appeal of a recent criminal defamation conviction and should stop using criminal defamation laws against members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday [Jan. 27]. On Jan. 11, a criminal court judge in the southern city of Concepción convicted Soto, editor of the […]
"On Wednesday, Jan. 25, officers of Venezuela’s investigative police unit detained El Nacional news editor José Gregorio Meza and human resources manager Virginia Nuñez, according to news reports and Miguel Enrique Otero, the president and editor of El Nacional, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. Officers brought them to the attorney general’s office in […]
"Daniel Ortega's regime in Nicaragua closes and confiscates media outlets, imprisons journalists and forces them into exile. But attacks on press freedom are spreading throughout the region: Nayib Bukele in El Salvador and other Central American presidents are following Ortega's handbook. In this special episode we talk [in Spanish] with Octavio Enriquez, a Nicaraguan journalist […]
"The Paraguayan radio station Radio Cáritas Universidad Católica 680 AM, dean of the radio in the country, denounced having been the victim of threats in recent days, allegedly due to information that generated 'uneasiness' in an unknown sector, according to what was reported on Tuesday (24.01.2023). This is what the general director of Radio Caritas, […]
"Begrudgingly tolerated a few years ago, Cuban reporters are now regularly detained, can have their phones and laptops seized, and their internet cut. Independent journalism in Cuba – usually supported by foreign funding – has blossomed since 2018, the year in which the state punctured its monopoly on information by unleashing relatively uncensored mobile internet. […]
"National and international organizations expressed their concern on Tuesday (Jan. 17) about the lawsuit for moral damages filed against a journalist who published an article on alleged acts of corruption involving the government and the brother-in-law of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. The Venezuelan journalist of the digital media La Posta, Andersson Boscán -who has lived […]