"Police found Guayaquil journalist Xavier Ramos dead inside his home in the La Alborada neighborhood, in the northern part of the city on [Aug. 21]. Police Major Gino Sánchez reported that the body of a 47-year-old man was found with 'wounds caused by a knife.' [...] Journalists' unions condemned the journalist's murder and demanded security […]
"The National Association of Bolivian Journalists and the Circle of Women Journalists condemned the assault suffered by journalist Marcela Cruz Tola in Oruro, when a man attacked her while she was hosting a program on Channel 15. Both organizations demanded an immediate investigation. [...] A security camera video captured the moment a man entered the […]
"Community, Indigenous, and Afro-Mexican media outlets reported facing harassment, censorship, threats, and attacks from state and political party actors, amid violence, dispossession, and criminalization in their territories. In a collective statement, they demanded respect for their autonomy and direct participation in communications policy decisions. The statement was issued following the National Meeting 'Sowing the Word, […]
"Chilean authorities have arrested one of the suspects in the killing of Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina Sotomayor. Olfran Domingo Rivas Ramos, who also goes by the alias 'Pancho,' was taken into custody after a routine traffic stop in Santiago, according to Peru's National Police. Rivas Ramos, a foreign national, is being investigated for the January […]
An episode of violence against the press was reported on Thursday [Aug. 14] during a protest led by municipal officials in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Radio Concierto network reporter Héctor Maciel was assaulted while covering officials demanding payment for back wages, according to the media outlet Última Hora. According to local reports, a group of […]
"The Human Rights Committee of the Vente Venezuela party reported on Saturday [Aug. 16] the declining health of journalist Víctor Ugas, who has been detained since the disputed re-election of Nicolás Maduro in August 2024. The Voluntad Popular party warned last July that the journalist needed urgent medical attention, after suffering from fever for almost […]
"A Mexican judge sentenced two drug trafficking hitmen who attempted to assassinate renowned journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva in December 2022 to eleven years in prison, the Attorney General's Office reported Monday [Aug. 18]. To date, eleven people have been sentenced to various prison terms for this attack, which—according to one of the defendants—was ordered by […]
"The Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice set a key precedent in the investigation and prosecution of crimes against journalists in Colombia, upholding the 58-year prison sentence against Yean Arlex Buenaventura Barreto, identified as a co-author in the murders of journalist Luis Antonio Peralta Cuéllar and his wife, Sofía Quintero, which occurred […]
"Geovanna Edith Ramírez Morales, a radio and television host, was murdered in the municipality of Silao, Guanajuato, the State Attorney General's Office reported. Last Sunday, Aug. 10, the Silao Public Security Secretariat received a report about the discovery of a body in the La Estrella neighborhood. It was later confirmed that it was the radio […]
"On Thursday [Aug. 15], the federal prosecutor for San Isidro, Fernando Domínguez, charged President Javier Milei; Lilia Lemoine, a national representative for La Libertad Avanza (LLA); and other pro-government figures—from officials to Twitter users—in the case pitting journalist Julia Mengolini against the head of state. The case file—titled 'Milei, Javier, and others regarding threats, public […]
"On Tuesday, Aug. 12, the area surrounding the Constitutional Court in Quito was filled with protesters and public officials carrying signs exposing the Court's judges and blaming them for the country's insecurity. The march was organized at the request of President Daniel Noboa. During the day, at least four journalists were physically attacked, some of […]
"The Michoacán State Attorney General's Office announced the arrest of the alleged murderer of journalist Armando Linares López, who was killed in March 2022. The suspect, identified as Magdiel 'N,' was apprehended as a result of an operational action in the municipality of Zitácuaro, where the journalist was killed. The prosecutor indicated that the alleged […]