"[...] EL PAÍS had access to the images that show the attack and the moments before the journalist [Roberto Toledo's] murder. The video is in the hands of the Prosecutor's Office and has been independently verified by this newspaper. In the recording, three hit men can be seen arriving on two motorcycles to a street […]
"The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) asked Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to "immediately suspend the attacks and insults" against journalists, warning that these attacks "from the pinnacle of power encourage violence against the press." Through a press release, the organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of press freedom also made public its rejection […]
"A news team was attacked in the early hours of Monday Feb. 14, in front of the 2nd Sectional Police Station in Campinas, in Southeaster Brazil. A cameraman from TV Thati, an affiliate of Rede Record in the metropolis, was run over on purpose while recording with the station's reporter. He had light bruises. The […]
"The State Attorney General's Office announced onFeb. 14, that it opened an investigation ex officio for the alleged crime of sexual harassment of sports journalists on a radio station in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The announcement of this investigation comes after the journalist María Soledad Reyes denounced on her social media that in a sports station in […]
"Around 300 journalists were in front of the facilities of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) to demand that the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador act against the attacks and murders that have already claimed the lives of six journalists so far in 2022. Under the slogans 'journalism at risk' and 'you can't […]
"'And now, who's next?... We no longer want to come and bury another colleague. We are fed up with speeches, we demand a law that protects us. It is not fair to take our lives for denouncing corruption,' Oaxaca Isthmus journalist Rodolfo Canseco said. Family, friends and colleagues said goodbye on Feb. 13 at the […]
"The Judiciary permanently shelved the last defamation complaint filed by the Peruvian American citizen Miguel Arévalo Ramírez, known as 'Eteco,' in the files of the Anti-Drug Police and the Prosecutor's Office, against Óscar Castilla, executive director of OjoPúblico. In 2016, Castilla published an investigative journalistic series about Arévalo's judicial history. Since 2017, Arévalo filed a series […]
"Journalism in Mexico is once again in mourning. This Thursday [02/10], journalist Heber López Vásquez, a reporter in the port of Salina Cruz, in the state of Oaxaca, was shot dead in his home, a continuing pattern. López Vásquez, 39, was director of the local page RCP Noticias in Oaxaca, and his death occurred after […]
"A Nicaraguan judge found journalist Miguel Mora guilty for the crime of 'conspiracy' on Feb. 4. Mora was one of seven presidential candidates imprisoned in the country for eight months, after announcing his intention to run against President Daniel Ortega. Ortega was re-elected in November for a fourth consecutive term. The former director of the […]
"Journalist Givanildo Oliveira, 46, was murdered on Monday night Feb. 7, hours after publishing a report on the arrest of a murder suspect. Oliveira was one of the founders of the site Pirambu News, which covered news about the neighborhood of Fortaleza. The first report indicates that he had been threatened not to publish information about […]
"MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two prominent U.S. Senators published an open letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday asking him to “urge the Mexican government to seriously improve efforts to protect journalists.” Four journalists in Mexico were killed in January, and a fifth was attacked but escaped unharmed in February after the attacker’s gun […]
"Journalist Anabel Hernández said she will not ignore threats against her, such as those made by actor Andrés García, made public through a video, and for which she has already sued him in a criminal court. 'In said lawsuit I asked the Prosecutor's Office that in addition to threats against me, Mr. Andrés García's gender […]