"During a ceremony honoring Indigenous rights advocate Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips, held this Wednesday, June 11, in Brasília, Sidônio Palmeira—Minister of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency (Secom/PR)—apologized on behalf of the Brazilian State to the families of the two defenders of the Amazon. The apology addressed the defamatory and hateful […]
"Early Thursday morning [June 11], reporter Luis Ángel López was killed in an armed attack while driving along 20 de Noviembre Avenue in the Cazones neighborhood of Poza Rica, in northern Veracruz. The incident took place around 1:00 a.m. on Thursday, when the journalist—who covered the police beat for the media outlet Vanguardia—was shot after […]
"After several months without information and given the slowdown of proceedings related to the complaints against the former Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Roosevelt Hernandez, the organizations Association for Democracy and Human Rights (Asopodehu) and Young Promoters and Defenders of Human Rights (Joprodeh) demand transparent progress from the Public […]
"Journalist Maryorin Méndez was released this Wednesday [June 3] after being briefly detained while covering a protest by relatives of political prisoners near El Helicoide in Caracas, according to the National College of Journalists (CNP, for its initials in Spanish). Unconfirmed reports indicate that Méndez was detained along with photojournalists Miguel Gutiérrez and Leonardo Fernández. […]
“On the afternoon of Saturday [June 6], armed men fatally shot veteran journalist Cristian Herrera Nariño in a neighborhood in the city of Cúcuta, in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department. Herrera was a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP, by its Spanish acronym) and had been threatened for […]
“Mexican reporter Roxana Ramírez had been working in the southern part of the state of Veracruz for about six months, during which she launched the digital outlet “Impulso,” according to local journalists. Police sources said the events occurred at 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday in the town of Nanchital, an area considered highly dangerous for practicing […]
“The Latin American fact-checking network LatamChequea expressed particular concern over attacks, harassment and digital violence targeting fact-checkers from Ecuador Chequea and Lupa Media, both members of LatamChequea, amid a broader context of restrictions on press freedom in Ecuador. […] The digital attacks targeting independent fact-checkers in recent weeks are another sign of the climate of […]
"On May 24 of this year, Juan Manuel Partida Valdez—president of the Association of Journalists of Sinaloa and author of the column 'Altoparlante' —received death threats directed at his family, as well as stigmatizing comments from anonymous profiles on the social media platform Facebook. These events occurred after he published a post regarding alleged acts […]
The Honduran National Commissioner for Human Rights (Conadeh) said Sunday (May 24) that it has received 154 complaints from journalists at risk or victims of internal forced displacement due to violence from 2016 to March 2026, and called on the government to adopt effective measures to protect them. Marking Honduran Journalists’ Day, observed on May […]
"Eduardo Bolsonaro published a video on his social media accounts stating that he had called the police because a journalist came to his home in Texas, mentioning that in the U.S. state, 'many people have guns in their homes.' Influencer Paulo Figueiredo, who resides in the U.S. state of Florida, used the case reported by […]
"Journalist Jocelyn Justin, who survived a violent armed attack […] in downtown Port-au-Prince on Dec. 24, 2024, has spent more than a year receiving medical treatment in Cuba. After suffering severe jaw injuries when he was struck in the face by a projectile, Justin underwent multiple surgeries as part of a lengthy recovery process. He […]
"Peruvian journalist Geraldine Santos is only 30 years old, and she is already preparing for her funeral. Santos says she has received so many threats while reporting on cocaine trafficking and environmental crimes in the Amazon jungle that she has arranged for her family to contact a government source who, in case Santos is murdered, […]