"At least 293 Nicaraguan media workers have left their country for security reasons or have been banished since April 2018, according to a report released Thursday [July 10] by the Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy (FLED), part of the regional network Voces del Sur. The report, titled "Nicaraguan Government Intensifies Harassment and Retaliation […]
"Mexican authorities must immediately and credibly investigate death threats against two crime reporters, Óscar Balderas and Luis Chaparro, and take all appropriate steps to guarantee their safety and that of other reporters covering organized crime, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. [...] The threats came just weeks after unidentified assailants killed two journalists in […]
“Journalist Martín Melvin García Carvajal, 57, was found dead around 3 p.m. on Monday, July 7, in a rented room on the island of Cozumel in the state of Quintana Roo. Local police and state prosecutors responded to the scene and recovered the body, which showed advanced signs of decomposition. Authorities cordoned off the area […]
"Lydia Cacho and Artículo 19 – Mexico Office expressed deep concern and outrage over a recent ruling by the Third Circuit Collegiate Court in Cancún, Quintana Roo, which exonerated Juan Sánchez Moreno, a former commander in the then-Attorney General’s Office of Puebla. He had been convicted for his role in the torture of journalist and […]
"Journalist's Day was not a day of celebration in Venezuela. Press workers, censored, persecuted, underpaid and almost exterminated, now have the duty to demand the freedom of some 20 of their colleagues detained by the regime. On July 4, they staged an eloquent scene by displaying on the façade of the National College of Journalists […]
"The Colombian police detained two men accused of being the material authors of the attack against journalist Gustavo Chicangana Álvarez, better known as Gustavo Chica, and his wife, which took place on Saturday in San José de Guaviare, in the center-south of the country, according to official sources on Monday [July 8]. Police Director General […]
"Journalist Gustavo Chica, of Guaviare Estéreo and Caracol Radio, was the victim of an armed attack last night [July 5]. He and his wife were leaving their home in [the Colombian municipality of] San José del Guaviare to go to a park when they were shot several times. Both were wounded and were taken by […]
"This Thursday, July 3, 2025, the Court of First Instance of Dulce Nombre de María formally handed down the conviction of General José Guillermo García, Colonel Francisco Antonio Morán, and Colonel Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, found guilty of ordering the murders of four Dutch journalists on March 17, 1982, during the Salvadoran civil war. According […]
“In a virtual plenary session held Monday, June 30, the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj for its initials in Portuguese) officially presented an updated version of its Internal Protocol for Action in Cases of Violence Against Journalists to representatives from journalists’ unions across Brazil. The document organizes existing procedures and introduces faster, more effective guidelines […]
"An immigration judge [in Georgia, United States] determined this Tuesday [July 1] that journalist Mario Guevara will be able to be released on bail while his immigration process continues, a family member of the Salvadoran man confirmed. In an interview with the publication Notivisión Georgia, his wife Miriam Sáenz de Guevara said she was happy […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemns the detention of independent journalist Henry Constantín in Cuba, who has been accused of alleged contempt for carrying out his journalistic work. The organization demands his immediate release, guarantees for his physical integrity, and an end to all forms of harassment, censorship, and repression against those who exercise […]
"[Amanecer Habanero director Yunia] Figueredo refused to comply with a June 23 police summons, reviewed by CPJ [the Committee to Protect Journalists]. On that same day she received three private number phone calls warning her that a police investigation had been opened against her and [her husband, reporter Frank] Correa for 'dangerousness,' the journalists told […]