"It’s no secret that Trumpism lives on in Latin America, where leaders with authoritarian tendencies, on both the left and the right, have been borrowing from Trump’s populist playbook — from embracing his most radical and toxic strategies to discredit elections to habitually blasting critics on Twitter. But perhaps nowhere is Trump’s poisonous impact more […]
On Feb. 28, the Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its acronym in Spanish) presented a summary of complaints of restrictions on journalism during electoral coverage. According to their records, there were at least 58 attacks against the press. Read original article (in Spanish)
"More than 70 journalists spoke out against the judicial criminalization of freedom of information that exists in Peru and against the currents that point to the press as the 'enemy of the people. ' Among the repeated attacks against the press in Peru, legal complaints, smears based on false information and conspiracy theories have become […]
"The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo will execute this Tuesday, Feb. 23, the last act of confiscation of Confidencial, Esta Semana, Esta Noche, Revista Niú and the offices of the consulting company Cabal, in complicity with the Ministry of Health (Minsa, for its acronym in Spanish). Vice President Rosario Murillo announced that this […]
"In Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro uses lies and attacks on the media to mask his inability to address the Covid-19 pandemic’s devastating impact, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is about to launch a communication campaign called the “Naked Truth” to highlight journalism’s vital importance in providing access to reliable information about the pandemic. Produced by […]
"The administration of President Alejandro Giammattei in Guatemala has targeted the media through bellicose rhetoric and false accusations throughout the president’s first year in office, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said today. Investigations into threats, attacks, and two killings of journalists during this period have made little progress." Read original […]
"The new room is far from the plenary and makes it difficult for reporters to access parliamentarians. It is not the first time that a president of the Chamber has tried to occupy the space of the Press Committee, where journalists work. (...) To leave the presidency of the Chamber and reach the plenary, the […]
"The Federal Supreme Court (STF, for its acronym in Portuguese) denied on Thursday (Feb. 11) the recognition of the so-called 'right to be forgotten'- by which someone could claim that the media were prevented from disclosing information about a true fact considered harmful or painful." Read original article (in Portuguese)
“The overview of freedom of expression in [Colombia] is very worrying. This is demonstrated with figures and facts from a report by the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP). According to the leading organization in the fight to protect journalists in the country, threats, homicides, displacements and exile have worsened 'significantly' in the last four years, […]
“The journalist Juan Sarmiento was released this morning [Feb. 7] by the Judge of the Criminal Judicial Unit of Cantón Tena, Luis Eduardo Mendoza Chávez, after the prescription of a sentence against him. The journalist was sentenced by the Ecuadorian justice to 10 days in prison, to the payment of 25 percent of a Unified […]
"The Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting independent journalism and press freedom in Nicaragua, announced this Friday, Feb. 5, that it will cease operations because they will not be subject to the Foreign Agents Law approved by the Assembly last October. [...] The Ministry of the Interior (Migob, for its acronym […]
“Hours after the director of Radio Darío, businessman Aníbal Toruño, denounced –in an international news network– violations of press freedom in Nicaragua, police of President Daniel Ortega's regime raided his home for the third time in two months. The officers broke into the building at approximately ten in the morning, when there was no one […]