“Between July 31 and Aug. 11, 2026, between 60 and 90 accounts on the social media platform X published content in two successive waves that appropriated the logos, typography and editorial formats of eight Ecuadorian news outlets: Primicias, Ecuavisa (Ecuavisa Play), El Comercio, Radio Pichincha, TC Televisión, Teleamazonas, Radio Centro and La Hora. This was […]
"Venezuelan journalist Wilmer Roberto Solano Dávila was released after posting a $5,000 bond, but he came close to being transferred to California despite the fact that a Miami immigration judge had approved his release on bond. Solano Dávila, 58 [who formerly worked with Venezuelan TV channel Globovision] was released Friday night from the Immigration and […]
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) announced Monday [Aug. 10] that it had begun reviewing public allegations of threats and interference against the judge overseeing the criminal case against Roosevelt Hernández, the former head of the Armed Forces [of Honduras], who is accused of offenses related to freedom of expression. The investigation was announced by the […]
"Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a search and seizure targeting former state secretary Raimundo Cutrim, identified in the decision as the source for journalist Luís Pablo in reports about STF Justice Flávio Dino. […] The journalist was himself the target of a search and seizure in March, after publishing reports alleging […]
"Six journalists have been murdered in Mexico this year, five of them in just over two months, marking one of the deadliest spikes in violence against journalists that CPJ has documented in over a decade. Despite several organized calls for justice in the Mexican states where the reporters were killed, government authorities have not addressed concerns by local journalists and press freedom […]
“The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today announced it will honor journalists from Colombia, Eritrea, El Salvador, Hungary, Lebanon, and Myanmar at the 36th annual International Press Freedom Awards in New York on Thursday, November 19, 2026. Carlos Dada, the Salvadoran journalist who in 1998 co-founded El Faro, the first digital newspaper in Central America, […]
"Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday defended a new set of [proposed] regulations on audience rights. The controversy surrounding the measure has escalated in recent days, reaching the president's daily morning news conference. After several days of criticism and expressions of concern from news organizations, experts, civil society groups and opposition leaders — who have […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists is disappointed that the Cuban government has not seen it fit to include independent media on its new list of professional activities freed from state control among economic reforms, according to news reports. On Wednesday [July 29], the government announced reforms allowing private enterprise in economic sectors such as transport […]
"Journalist José Fernandes Linhares Júnior, editor of Blog do Linhares, was sentenced to two years and 15 days in prison for insulting and defaming former Maranhão Gov. Flávio Dino [who now serves as a Supreme Court Justice in Brazil]. The sentence was handed down on July 21 by the Sixth Criminal Court of São Luís. […]
"The Second Court of Appeals has annulled, for the second time, the 2023 conviction of journalist José Rubén Zamora and ordered a new trial before the Ninth Criminal Sentencing Tribunal. The resolution complies with an October 2025 order by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), which had returned the case file […]
“At an internal session held on July 24, 2026, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) selected the following ten finalists from among 145 applicants from 22 countries for the position of Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression: Carrillo Villamizar Raissa, Colombia Correa Barros Carlos José, Venezuela Giacaman Sarah Viviana, Chile Herrera Ulloa Mauricio, Costa […]
“Journalist José Antonio López Piña was summoned for questioning and threatened with prison and exile on July 27 in retaliation for his work with independent media outlets. Authorities warned him that if he does not leave the country within two months, he will face criminal prosecution for alleged subversion and usurpation of functions, carrying a […]