"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 […]
"Mexican television host and model Michelle Pérez Tadeo, known as Michelle Simon, was found dead this Tuesday, Feb. 22 in Santo Tomás Ajusco, in the Tlalpan district (in the southern part of Mexico City), as reported by authorities. The Prosecutor's Office of Mexico City is already investigating the case as a femicide although it does […]
"The author of the controversial 'ChuzaDAS' investigative report said through his Twitter account he had suffered an attack in Bogotá, Colombia, in which his security detail 'had to draw their weapons.' The events took place on Wed. Feb. 23, at the journalist's home. (...) Martínez is an investigative journalist. He contributes to the web portal La […]
"Police officers from the 8th Precinct of the Department of Homicide and Protection of Persons (DHPP) arrested on Feb. 11, 2022 a man who was hiding in a house in the Pirambu neighborhood, in Fortaleza, Brazil, with 43 bags of marijuana. Thiago de Sousa Barros, 20, was named by a witness as the person who […]
"The organization of Nicaraguan Independent Journalists and Communicators (PIN, by its Spanish acronym) denounced the sentence against the sports writer and political prisoner Miguel Mendoza Urbina, arguing that it lacks a legal basis and, therefore, it should be annulled. President Daniel Ortega's Judiciary sentenced the member of the opposition to nine years of prison and […]
"Cuban journalists Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez received a humanitarian visa in Mexico, reported the National Migration Institute (INM) of the Ministry of the Interior on Friday, Feb. 18. […] Héctor Luis Valdés Cocho and Esteban Rodríguez were forced to leave Cuba in January, after the regime threatened Rodríguez with imprisonment and prosecution […]
"In Tijuana, epicenter of the murders of journalists in recent weeks and one of the most complicated places to practice reporting in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared the judicial process being followed on some of the crimes against journalists. [...] In most of the reported cases, the gunmen who fired the shots have […]
"[...] 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 […]