“The Specialized Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice denied the appeal filed by the former mayor of Loja, Bolívar Castillo, and issued an acquittal that confirmed the innocence of journalist Lenin Paladines. On Sept.15, 2020, the judge of the Loja Penal Unit, Mario Guerrero, dismissed the lawsuit that Bolívar Castillo filed against the […]
“'I am not free, but at least I am out of the dungeons,' Camila Acosta told CPJ via messaging app after her release to house arrest on July 16 following a four-day detention for covering the recent protests in Cuba. Acosta, who is based in Havana, covered protests on July 11 for the Cuban independent […]
"An international study released this Tuesday (July 20, 2021) demonstrates a colossal increase in attacks on the press in Brazil and Latin America. The Voces del Sur (VdS) network, of which the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and 12 other organizations in the region are part, released the third edition of the Sombra Report. […]
"The Voces del Sur (VDS) network presented the Shadow Report 2020 that compiles alerts related to violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press and access to information that occurred in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina , Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. [...] The regional results […]
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold its 181st Period of Sessions online between October 18th to 29th of 2021. [...] In accordance with its Rules of Procedure, the IACHR will receive requests for public hearings through the system that closes on August 5, 2021, at 11:59 p.m. local time at the IACHR headquarters […]
“Judge Air Marin Junior, of the 2nd Civil Court of Boa Vista (RR), granted an injunction determining the removal of excerpts of the report '"I buy everything': Yanomami gold is freely sold on Rua do Ouro, in Boa Vista,” produced by Amazônia Real, in partnership with Repórter Brasil, and published on June 24 of this […]
"IFEX-ALC is concerned over the 11 July theft of computers and an external hard drive from the home of CAinfo president Fabián Werner and his partner, journalist María Natalia Rodríguez. The theft took place within a context of increasing hostility against the media in Uruguay, which was highlighted by CAinfo in its 7th Threats Monitoring […]
"The government of Nayib Bukele denied a work permit to American journalist, Roman Olivier Gressier, a member of El Faro. The news was published on the social networks of the media outlet, which said that in a week, two foreign journalists have received similar refusals 'under questionable grounds.' Last week, Mexican editor Daniel Lizárraga was […]
"In Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, and Peru, emergency measures in response to COVID-19 restricted the media’s capacity to report freely and the public’s ability to access information, including critical information about public health interventions and the pandemic itself, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw program found. The report, […]
"Journalists from Latin America warned about the use of new forms of judicial harassment –among them the Lawfare theory– by certain political sectors against journalism in the region. The most serious example was when on Tuesday [June 22] the 'justice' of the Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua raided the home of investigative journalist Carlos Fernando […]
"Nicaraguan journalist Julio López, of the Onda Local digital portal, reported this Thursday [June 24] that he has gone into exile after learning that he had immigration retention and that he would be cited for a case of alleged money laundering for which the nonprofit directed by opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro, daughter of former president […]
"On the night of June 21, the Nicaraguan police arrested the sports journalist Miguel Ángel Mendoza Urbina. The government of Daniel Ortega confirmed his arrest on a press release which expressed that the journalist is investigated for: 'Carrying out acts that undermine independence, sovereignty, and self-determination, inciting foreign interference in internal affairs, requesting military interventions, […]