"Dozens of journalists led a demonstration in the port city of Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero, to demand that state and federal authorities solve the crime of the shooting death of journalist Nelson Matus in that city on Saturday [July 15]. Press workers gathered this Monday [17 July] and blocked the main avenue […]
"Crime reporter Nelson Matus Peña, 42, was shot to death Saturday afternoon [July 15] in Acapulco, Mexico. Matus Peña was the editor of the news portal Lo Real de Guerrero. He was also a photojournalist for the now defunct Revista Alarma, the newspaper El Alarmante and the news platform Agora Guerrero. [...] Matus is the […]
"Dominican lawyer and journalist Pedro Jiménez denounced this Wednesday [12 July] having received threats from Miguel Arturo López (alias Micky), listed in a drug trafficking file, as does his wife, the deputy for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM, by its Spanish acronym), Rosa Amalia Pilarte. Through the radio program 'El Sol de la Mañana', Jiménez […]
"The Attorney General's Office (FGR, by its Spanish acronym) [of Mexico] announced this Thursday [July 13] the arrest of Adolfo Karam Beltrán, former director of the Judicial Police of the state of Puebla, for the crime of torture against Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho in 2005, after she published an investigation. The Attorney General's Office, through […]
"On March 26, 2018, a team of El Comercio newspaper was captured in the border area between Ecuador and Colombia by the Colombian armed group Oliver Sinisterra Front. Days later, in April, the murder of Javier Ortega (journalist), Paúl Rivas (photographer) and Efraín Segarra (driver) was confirmed, after failed negotiations between captors and Ecuadorian authorities. […]
"As an act of 'memory and reparation for the victims' relatives' was how the Government described the commemoration held this Tuesday, in [the presidential palace of] La Moneda, on the occasion of Journalist's Day in Chile [celebrated on July 11]. [...] According to official information, around 230 journalists suffered political imprisonment, in addition to another […]
"The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES, for its Spanish acronym) denounced on Monday (July 10) the arbitrary detention of one of its colleagues, who was imprisoned for more than 11 months and who was tortured during the “state of exception” in force since March 2022. 'The Association of Journalists of El Salvador (APES) […]
"Fewer journalists were killed in the first six months of this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said on Thursday [July 6, 2023]. Since January, 27 journalists have paid for their profession with their lives in 17 countries. This is the lowest figure recorded in more than 15 years. […] From January up to June […]
"The Prosecutor of [the Mexican state of] Nayarit, Petronilo Díaz Ponce Medrano, confirmed to La Jornada newspaper that journalist Osiris Maldonado de la Paz, who was kidnapped on July 3, was found alive [...]. Maldonado de la Paz was abducted in recent days, as also was Jonathan Lora Ramírez, who was last seen in the […]
"At the beginning of the 'Dialogue for the Truth' promoted by the Commission for the Truth, Historical Clarification and the Promotion of Justice for Serious Human Rights Violations committed from 1965 to 1990 in the Northwest and West [of Mexico], Fernando Zepeda Hurtado, a journalist from Mazatlán who for many years was head of information […]
"Members of the Roundtable for the Safety of Journalists [of Paraguay] met yesterday [July 4] with Attorney General Emiliano Rolón Fernández to express their concern about the possible lack of follow-up and information on recent cases of threats to journalists in the interior of the country. They also asked how the investigations of the murder […]
"Joan Santana, a journalist from Santiago [northern Dominican Republic], reported on Tuesday [July 4] that he suffered an attack on his way home on the night of Monday [July 3], after he had discussed issues uncensored on his television program. He said that while he was driving his Hyundai car, two people on board a […]