"In the last ten days, at least four journalists in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula have received death threats through platforms and social media. The increase in threats and intimidation against journalists and media outlets is produced by unknown persons who have said to be against the opinions issued and the work of these communicators. […]
"Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas was nationally and internationally recognized for his crónicas and investigations, in which he reported the violence in his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He practiced journalism in the midst of the prevailing violence in Mexico and confronted, through his pen, corruption, political power and drug trafficking. For Javier, self-censorship was never […]
"On May 17, the trial will begin against three agents and a former commissioner of the National Civil Police of Guatemala for the illegal detention of journalist Norma Sancir, on Sept. 18, 2014. Sancir was covering a demonstration of the Mayan Ch'orti' people in the municipality of Camotán. They were demanding the approval of the […]
"On May 16, a trial begins against Marco Javier Morantes Pico, the guard who twenty-three years ago received journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima in La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia. That was the starting point for her subsequent kidnapping, torture, and sexual violence in retaliation for her journalistic work. Although the crime happened more than two […]
"Journalist Gerardo Torres Rentería was shot to death by a group of armed men on the night of May 11, 2023, inside his private home located on 2nd Street in the Icacos neighborhood, a few meters from Avenida Costera Miguel Áleman and the main entrance of the facilities of the Eighth Naval Region in Acapulco, […]
"We reject and regret the murder of Luis Gabriel Pereira, journalist and director of the digital news outlet Notiorense, in Ciénaga de Oro, Córdoba [Colombia]. The crime took place on the afternoon of May 9, in the Julio Manzur neighborhood. Two men on a motorcycle shot the journalist. Luis Gabriel Pereira, 25, had only been […]
"Almost eight years after the crime, relatives of Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the other four women murdered in what is known as the Narvarte Case demanded progress from the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City, especially in determining the motive and identifying the masterminds. At a press conference held at the Mexico City Human […]
The Nicaraguan journalist Hazel Zamora Hernández, news director of a local program and collaborator of Channel 10 television in Nicaragua's southern Caribbean, was detained on Friday, May 5, by the National Police, according to the website Alertas Libertad de Prensa Nicaragua. The journalist was detained by police while traveling with her children in a public […]
"Two days after the publication of an investigation that stopped a campaign based on slanderous disinformation against news website IDL-R director, Gustavo Gorriti and newspaper La República director Gustavo Mohme, the ultra-right-wing groups known as 'La Pestilencia' [the Pestilence] violently attacked the offices of IDL-Reporteros on Friday night [May 5], which represented the fourth attack […]
"During 2022, 88 attacks on journalism and freedom of expression were recorded in Argentina, according to the Annual Report of the Freedom of Expression Monitoring carried out every year by the Argentine Journalism Forum (Fopea, by its Spanish acronym). The figure marked a decrease of 18.52% in relation to 2021, when 108 cases were recorded. […]