"Peru's Constitutional Court on Friday [Feb. 20] ordered the release of a former minister after overturning his 12-year prison sentence for being a direct co-author of the murder of a journalist in 1988, when the politician was a young army officer during the armed conflict between security forces and the Shining Path terrorist group. A […]
“After two years and nine months of legal proceedings, justice is finally being served for journalist Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández. The judge presiding over the case issued a guilty verdict against Jesús N. and Francisco N., accused of aggravated intentional homicide, said the victim’s daughter, Diana Luisa Ramírez, indicating that the motive for the crime […]
"The Foundation for Press Freedom [FLIP, by its Spanish acronym] is alerting the public of a serious escalation of intimidation against Dubán García, director of the Al Día Noticias newscast, and Hamilton Obando, cameraman and producer for the same media outlet in Mocoa, [in the Colombian department of] Putumayo. In recent days, a plot to […]
"The Bolivian government condemned on Sunday [Feb. 15] the attack suffered by a journalist in the city of El Alto, the country's second most populous city, and assured that the incident, which was denounced by the main press associations, will not go unpunished. [...] After covering a campaign event for the regional elections in a […]
"On the sixth anniversary of the killing of Brazilian journalist Lourenço 'Léo' Veras, the Institute for Environmental Law and Economics (Instituto de Derecho y Economía Ambiental – IDEA) and Media Defence have submitted a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), concerning the responsibility of the Paraguayan State in relation to his death […]
"The Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice sentenced prosecutor Bibiana Rosa Orozco Bonilla to four years in prison for releasing and closing the case against paramilitary member Alejandro Cárdenas, alias 'JJ,' who confessed to kidnapping and torturing journalist Jineth Bedoya. The prosecutor had been acquitted in a previous instance, but the high court, […]
ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America expressed its concern over threats of legal action against Honduran journalist Helen Montoya Aguilera, of the news outlet Reportar Sin Miedo (Report Without Fear), following the publication of an investigation into alleged nepotism and conflicts of interest linked to the political circle of Honduran President Nasry “Tito” Asfura. The […]
"Investigative journalist and founder of Epicentro TV, Clara Elvira Ospina, received death threats on social media. On Feb. 4, Ospina reported on X (formerly Twitter) that a user identified as 'Luis Hidalgo W' responded to her posts with threatening messages. 'Your days are numbered, you son of a b****,' were the words the individual used […]
"The organization Article 19 condemned the fact that independent journalist Frida Guerrera has received death threats on her personal Facebook account, starting on Jan. 14, 2026. According to the NGO and as reported by the journalist herself, an unknown individual threatened to harm her, and after she published about it on her own social media, […]
"[Sheila] Arias, based in the coastal resort city of Mazatlán, told [the Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ] that she had received threats in connection with a Jan. 26 post on her Facebook page about a real estate project in the area currently requesting a permit from the Mexican federal government. Arias reported that she received […]
Journalist Álvaro Algarra, a correspondent in Caracas for the German television network DW Spanish, was taken from his home on Wednesday, Feb. 4, by officials dressed in blue. By midday, his family did not know his whereabouts. It was later reported that he had returned home. Read the full article in Spanish.
“From January 2016 to December 2025, at least 89 journalists, eight media workers and 181 human rights defenders were killed in Mexico in possible connection with their work. In addition, the U.N. Human Rights Office documented that 14 journalists and media workers, along with 13 human rights defenders, survived attempted killings. It also recorded that […]