"After Proceso and the Aristegui Noticias portal published the report 'Sembrando Vida and the chocolate factory,' which states that the Government's flagship program has had a particular boost in Tabasco and is alleged to have benefitted the children of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and their chocolate factory named "Rocío." The Executive said that what […]
“The National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) and the Association of Journalists of La Paz (APLP) will hold Evo Morales responsible if new attacks against the media and journalists emerge from their bases. Morales heads the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS). His statements incite hatred, they said. "If attacks against the media or journalists were to […]
"The then Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR, by its Spanish acronym) investigated the journalist Marcela Turati, the defender, Anla Lorena Delgadillo, and the anthropologist Mercedes Doretti, who investigated the massacre of 196 victims found in clandestine graves in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post. According to this US newspaper, […]
"From [the region of] Huancavelica, [Peruvian] President Pedro Castillo severely questioned some media outlets that–according to him– 'misrepresent reality' for reporting that on his visit this Monday [Nov. 22] to Arequipa, a group of people asked for him to be replaced. Castillo warned that his government will not give "a penny" to media that misinform […]
"Two journalistic investigations published by Sudestada about the participation of Uruguayan law firms in complex international money laundering structures were removed from Google search results, according to the company, without prior defense nor due process. Unable to defend itself, Sudestada presented on Nov. 19 a protection recourse before the Uruguayan Justice, backed by lawyer Matías […]
"Voting for mayors and governors began with complaints from the media and journalists covering elections and present at voting centers throughout Venezuela. Espacio Publico registered a total of 27 cases which equaled 53 freedom of expression violations in Aragua, Lara, Táchira, Mérida, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Guárico, Portuguesa, Carabobo, Falcón, Bolívar, Caracas, Trujillo, and Cojedes. Intimidation, […]
“Judicial harassment continues to consolidate as a tool to silence the press. In the last two months, [Foundation for Press Freedom in Colombia] has registered 14 cases of judicial harassment towards media and journalists that investigate topics of high public interest such as pedophilia within the Catholic Church, the health system, the activities of senators […]
"On Wednesday [Nov. 10], the court that is handling the case of Alex Saab ordered the federal prosecutor's office in Miami to open a criminal investigation of the media and journalists, most of them Venezuelans, who published photos of the last hearing of the alleged front man of Nicolás Maduro despite to the express prohibition […]
"The Minister of the Interior of El Salvador, Juan Carlos Bidegain, presented before the Legislative Assembly this Tuesday [Nov. 9] an initiative of the Law of Foreign Agents, similar to the one approved by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega [of Nicaragua], in which President Nayib Bukele seeks to 'regulate' the donations or financing that different […]
"The Mexican Attorney General reported on Monday [Nov. 8] the arrest and the beginning of the criminal process against a person allegedly involved in the espionage of a journalist with the Pegasus malware, a program of the firm NSO Group that was used to spy on communicators, human rights activists and political dissidents in 50 […]
"The Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation against journalist Ernesto Cabral Mejía of OjoPúblico, for committing the alleged crime of unlawful disclosure, punishable by up to six years in prison. This was after 2019 when this news outlet and The Intercept Brasil revealed a series of [alleged] irregular dealings between the defendant for money laundering and […]
"For the past five months, Alvaro Navarro has been sitting before his computer keyboard with extra care. Never, not even when he started out as a keen reporter and then as news director for the news site Artículo 66, did he have to 'fret over' each word he types. Since last June, the situation for him […]