"Journalists associations in the easter district of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, protested this Thursday (04.11.2021) demanding justice, 'no impunity' and a speedy investigation into the kidnapping and torture of seven media workers, which they suffered while covering a story. The march—led by the Journalists Association of Santa Cruz, the Print News Workers Union of that district […]
“The main print media represented by the National Press Association (ANP, for its acronym in Spanish) and the National Association of Journalists of Bolivia (ANPB) called on the government to bring to justice the masterminds and material authors of the abduction and torture of journalists, this past Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in the Guarayos province […]
“Mercedes Fernández Merubia, a journalist for the ERBOL news agency and the Santa Cruz radio station, suffered attacks and was prevented from completing her reporting work on Oct. 1 when she was interviewing one of the two groups of Indigenous people who arrived in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, after holding […]
"The Bolivian Ombudsman's Office asked the State this Tuesday [Sept. 21] to 'guarantee the work of the media and strengthen the protection of press workers' after the recent attacks on a photojournalist in Santa Cruz and a journalist in Cochabamba." Read original article (in Spanish)
"Representatives of electoral institutions from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru signed a declaration in Quito with the aim of jointly combating false news and disinformation generated around electoral processes. [...] Among the commitments of the meeting, the participants reiterated their intention to continuously apply good regional practices for verifying information (factchecking) and actions against disinformation […]
"The Consortium to Support Independent Journalism in the Region (CAPIR, for its acronym in Spanish) calls on independent media from Mexico, Honduras, Bolivia and Venezuela to participate in the Initiative for Integral Media Development (IMDI), which seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity of independent media to protect their journalists, increase the reach of their audience […]
"The Voces del Sur (VDS) network presented the Shadow Report 2020 that compiles alerts related to violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press and access to information that occurred in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina , Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. [...] The regional results […]
"In Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, and Peru, emergency measures in response to COVID-19 restricted the media’s capacity to report freely and the public’s ability to access information, including critical information about public health interventions and the pandemic itself, a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists and Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw program found. The report, […]
“Workers of different media outlets in Cochabamba [Bolivia] protested this morning [April 27] demanding respect for freedom of expression, the Print Law and in rejection of the injunction that a judge made to 13 media outlets to provide information at the request of lawyer Jhasmani Torrico. [...] 'This mobilization has the objective of reminding the […]
"The government channel Bolivia TV denounced that two of its workers, a journalist and a cameraman, were attacked the day before by militants from the Chuquisaca Somos Todos (CST) group when they tried to cover an electoral campaign in the city of Sucre. The channel denounced that the incident prevented journalist Kevin Revollo and cameraman […]