“The editor of the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, Fabián Medina, denounced that the regime of President Daniel Ortega tries to make the practice of journalism a crime in the country, after leaving an interview in the prosecutor's office to which he was summoned this Thursday [June 10]. 'The prosecutor who interviewed me insisted a lot […]
"Through an order signed by Judge Geisler Smaille Pérez Domínguez, an armed group from the National Civil Police (PNC, for its acronym in Spanish) and personnel from the public prosecutor's office entered the home of Juan José Corado, sports editor of elPeriódico, this Wednesday [June 9] at 6:00 a.m. to carry out a search. [...] […]
"In the absence of a few minutes for the closing of the vote count for the second round [of presidential elections], and after a group of journalists denounced censorship by the news director of América TV and Canal N to report against Pedro Castillo, the executives of the television houses separated [a number of] communicators […]
"The Rio Civil Police Deputy Pablo Dacosta Sartori summoned journalist Leandro Demori, from The Intercept Brasil, to testify on Thursday (June 10, 2021). According to information from the site Metrópoles, the motivation for the subpoena was the May 8 newsletter published by the website, with accusations against civil police officers in Rio de Janeiro. In […]
"The Press Emblem Campaign announced this Monday (June 7) in Geneva that the number of journalists killed by COVID-19 surpassed the 1,500 mark worldwide, reaching 1,503. The month of May was the deadliest for the media since the beginning of the pandemic, with more than 200 losses, an average of seven per day. The countries […]
"On the Day of the Journalist, we published the Map of News Deserts of Argentina, an investigation by FOPEA, with the support of [Google Argentina]. We toured the entire country, town by town, to reveal the uneven distribution of journalism. For 6 months, a team of more than 20 journalists worked to ascertain where there […]
“Journalists Marvin del Cid and Sonny Figueroa were denounced on May 21 by María Luisa Morales Gatica de Martínez and Claudia Ivonne Martinez Morales de Girón because of a journalistic investigation into the luxury properties that relatives of the former director of the Center of Government, Luis Miguel Martínez Morales, occupied during his tenure and […]
"Venezuelan journalist Martí Hurtado and his wife, Nelly Pulgar, were released on Saturday night (May 29), after they were arrested on Friday and detained at a police headquarters in the city of Coro, as reported by the National Union of Press Workers of Venezuela (SNTP, for its acronym in Spanish). […] The couple 'were accused […]
"The freedom of expression organization of Honduras C-Libre reported that journalist and human rights activist Thirzia Galeas was detained at the Atlanta airport while requesting political asylum. Sunday [May] 23, Galeas entered the country with her tourist visa and asked for asylum upon arrival due to the persecution suffered by her organization. Her family and […]
"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) called it 'positive,' that the new president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, sent to the National Assembly a project that seeks to repeal the Communication Law of 2013, considered a 'gag law.' 'We are confident that, from now on, the new government will eliminate the legal mechanisms created to silence the […]
"The owner and director of Radio Corporación, Fabio Gadea Mantilla; former executive director of the assaulted channel 100% Noticias, Verónica Chávez; and journalist María Lilly Delgado, Univisión correspondent, were summoned by the public prosecutor to be 'interviewed,' in the case for the alleged crime of 'money and asset laundering,' which was opened against Cristiana Chamorro […]
"In the last year, 49 cases of threats to the freedom of expression of journalists were registered in Uruguay, according to the seventh monitoring report carried out by the Center for Archives and Access to Public Information (CAinfo, for its acronym in Spanish). This is the highest number of cases since the study began, following […]