"[...] along with Uruguay, Costa Rica is the only full democracy in Latin America, according to the latest Democracy Index by The Economist, and has been ranked second on the entire continent, after Canada, in the Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its acronym in French). [...] That's why it has become […]
"The Association of Professional Journalists of the State of São Paulo, together with the National Federation of Journalists and the Brazilian Press Association filed, on Fri, Feb. 23, before the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil, a request for disclosure of the names of journalists who were illegally spied on by the so-called 'Abin parallel.' The […]
"Mexico's freedom of information body INAI said on Thursday it was initiating an investigation after the country's president disclosed the phone number of a New York Times journalist looking into alleged ties between his allies and drug cartels. The disclosure took place during President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's daily news conference. [...] 'This is a […]
“A Guatemalan judge suspended the hearing [on Feb. 21] in which it was to be decided whether journalist José Rubén Zamora goes to a second trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation against him for which he was already sentenced to six years in prison. The head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Corruption, Rafael Curruchiche, […]
“The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) denounces the progression -- despite the legal barriers that protect journalism -- of the judicial process filed by businessman Yakov Fauster against media outlet El Diario de Hoy (EDH) and against journalist Jorge Beltrán Luna. This is a case that began in […]
A judge in Bogotá, Colombia, ordered journalist Daniel Coronell and the publisher Penguin Random House to eliminate information from the book "Los niños del Amazonas: 40 días perdidos en la selva" (The Children of the Amazon. 40 Days Lost in the Jungle), on the grounds that it allegedly violates the privacy of minors. The Foundation […]
"A Madrid court has acquitted journalist José Manzaneda of the crimes of defamation and hate after he was accused by the president of the association Prisoners Defenders, Javier Larrondo, a critic of the Cuban regime. The court determined that the journalist called Larrondo a 'war criminal' in an article in a metaphorical sense and within […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed concern over the use of civil and criminal lawsuits against two journalists from the Colombian digital media Volcánicas, with the alleged intention of obstructing journalistic investigations of public interest. The founding journalists of Volcánicas, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro and Matilde de los Milagros Londoño Jaramillo, published an investigation in June 2020 that collected anonymous […]
"The judiciary of the state of Bahia criminally condemned journalists Ailton São Paulo and Alana Rocha, who were exercising their profession. The action was filed by Daniela Cordeiro Nascimento, Guilherme Souza Tomasi and Ivina Adina Cordeiro Nascimento, who argued that they were victims of defamation for speeches made by presenters during the Gazeta Alerta program […]
"Associations that bring together journalists and photojournalists from Paraguay denounced this Tuesday [Feb. 13] alleged cases of censorship and harassment of those who report acts of corruption by public officials and warned that this is allegedly based on 'misuse' of a law for the protection of women. [...] Human rights lawyer and spokesperson for the […]