"This week, both the office and home of Jesús Humberto González Deleija, photojournalist for El Mañana de Reynosa and recently host of the program La Comezón de la Raza, were raided by unknown individuals in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The journalist, who has been the victim of aggressions both by authorities and by alleged members of organized […]
"More than 100 independent journalists attended the National Meeting of Journalists on Saturday (March 5, 2022) in the Mexican city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, state of Chiapas (southeast). They demanded a stop to the attacks [against journalists] and pointed out that many of these involve government officials. […] Al the meeting, they also […]
"Journalist Juan Carlos Muñiz, a contributor to the newspaper Testigo Minero, was murdered this Friday, March, 4, in the municipality of Fresnillo, Zacatecas. According to the media outlet, Juan Carlos was known in the area as Rigoberto or el TX and had collaborated for years with Testigo Minero and other media, and at the same […]
“Businessman Alexandre Pantazis publicly threatened three journalists from Metrópoles this Wednesday afternoon (March 2). In two publications made from his personal profile on Instagram, Pantazis attacked the journalists. Pantazis's messages were published on the official profile of Metrópoles, in the comments field of the article that quotes him: Mansão de sócio dos Pantazis é auctioned […]
"Peruvian authorities must thoroughly investigate a death threat against TV journalist Gastón Medina, bring those responsible to justice, and guarantee his safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On February 23, Medina, the owner and news director of the independent Cadena Sur television station in the southern city of Ica, arrived at the station […]
"Despite the complaints, the Guatemalan government assures that 'at no time has it carried out acts of censorship towards the media, reserving only the right of clarification so as not to distort the information.' Sonny Figueroa is not afraid. For one reason only: the truth. Despite threats against him, including death threats, the 29-year-old Guatemalan […]
"The reporter Branca Andrade, from the SBT Rio program, was intimidated by two unidentified men, who prevented her from doing a report at the Alvorada [bus] Terminal, in Barra de Tijuca, in the west of Rio de Janeiro, about a public transport strike in that city. Andrade was broadcasting live on the SBT Rio program […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the murders of two journalists in recent hours, one in Mexico and the other in Haiti. The organization lamented the failure of governments to adopt more efficient measures to protect journalists and urged the international community to continue denouncing the violence and impunity affecting journalists in Latin America. […]
"Jorge Luis Camero Zazueta, nicknamed El Choche, was shot to death on Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Libertad neighborhood in Sonora. The journalist worked for the portal El Informativo and until two weeks ago he worked as private secretary to Mayor Luis Fuentes Aguilar at the Empalme City Hall. (...) According to local media, the […]
"Haitian police on Wednesday opened fire on demonstrators demanding higher wages and killed a reporter, according to witnesses and a hospital official in the impoverished Caribbean island nation. Two other journalists were shot and wounded at the scene in Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of Haitians gathered to call for a higher minimum wage than the one […]