"A committee of Empresa Brasileira de Comunicação (EBC, by its Portuguese acronym) employees released on Tues. Aug. 30th a report that points out that this public communication company has been the target of editorial interference and censorship by the government of Jair Bolsonaro. According to the report, from August last year to July this year, […]
"In a fiery criticism of Uruguayan journalism and the 'role' it plays in today's society, Graciela Bianchi, senator of the National Party and on several occasions interim vice-president of the Republic [of Uruguay], questioned Eduardo Preve from Salta. Preve is the director of the news program of TV Ciudad (a channel belonging to the Municipality […]
Another young Cuban independent journalist, Meilin Puertas Borrero, decided to resign from her job at the news outlet elToque, due to harassment by the Cuban State Security. "Today, with a lump in my throat, I make public my resignation from El Toque, the news outlet where in recent times I grew as a journalist and […]
"This Thurs., Aug. 25, 2022, authorities from the Ministry of the Interior prevented six young journalists from elTOQUE from boarding Aerolíneas Argentinas flight AR1327, bound for Buenos Aires, at Havana's José Martí International Airport. The journalists were to participate in Media Party, the most important media innovation conference in Latin America. For three days, from […]
"The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB, by its Spanish acronym) declared itself in a state of emergency, after the extraordinary national meeting that took place in Sucre. In the meeting, the ANPB rejected the violation of rights and also the 'intimidation and judicial and political persecution, as well as the economic suffocation of […]
"The newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday in its digital edition that the Nicaraguan government has completed the 'de facto confiscation' of its movable and immovable properties, whose value, according to the newspaper, reaches an amount close to US$ 10 million. According to the report, construction work is progressing inside the newspaper's former building, without […]
"Journalistic revelations published by Raya Magazine warn of a case of espionage that directly or indirectly affected Colombian and foreign journalists. According to the investigation, agents of the Colombian State traced contacts of the Cuban political attaché Joel Marrero Enríquez, who according to the Colombian government was carrying out espionage activities. As a result of this […]
"The government of President Daniel Ortega, through the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Posts (Telcor, by its Spanish acronym), cancelled the broadcasting license of three more radio stations (...) With the closure of these three radio stations, 13 radio stations have been closed so far in August, most of them located in the north of […]
"The president and director of Guatemalan newspaper elPeriódico, José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, and assistant attorney Samari Carolina Gómez Díaz will spend at least three months in pre-trial detention on the basis of a single testimony and supposed evidence that Rafael Curruchiche, the head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI), told El Faro were […]
"The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (Iclep, by its Spanish acronym) recorded in July 140 events on the island that it considers violations of press freedom, the highest monthly figure so far in 2022. According to a press release from this Cuba-based NGO, in the year as a whole it has recorded […]
"As part of the investigation in the Pegasus case, journalists from Gato Encerrado were summoned by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) [of El Salvador]. They noted the slowness in the legal process, since more than six months have passed since a report revealed that more than 30 journalists had been tapped using Pegasus software, and […]
"Executives of the publisher of the newspaper Los Tiempos of Cochabamba confirmed this Thurs., Aug. 11, their denunciation of a campaign of economic asphyxia and political pressure against the newspaper through 'frequent' and disproportionate tax and administrative controls, the imposition of fines and sanctions, the exclusion from state advertising and the harassment by a businessman […]