"A total of 913 journalists have been forced to leave their countries in Latin America from 2018 to 2024 to protect their lives, safety, or freedom. This is according to the report “Displaced Voices: An X-ray of Latin American Journalistic Exile 2018–2024,” published by Proledi at the University of Costa Rica, along with Fundamedios (USA) […]
Five journalistic works from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador were announced as winners in the 13th edition of the Gabo Award, the most important recognition for journalism in Spanish and Portuguese. In the Text category, the award went to the report “Buscando a Mikelson: un apartheid en el Caribe” (Searching for Mikelson: Apartheid […]
"Independent journalist Henry Constantin, director of media outlet La Hora de Cuba and regional vice-president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) was released Thursday [July 3], after spending four days in a dungeon at the State Security headquarters [...]. [...] Constantin acknowledged that his situation is not promising. 'There are threats that will continue […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemns the detention of independent journalist Henry Constantín in Cuba, who has been accused of alleged contempt for carrying out his journalistic work. The organization demands his immediate release, guarantees for his physical integrity, and an end to all forms of harassment, censorship, and repression against those who exercise […]
"[Amanecer Habanero director Yunia] Figueredo refused to comply with a June 23 police summons, reviewed by CPJ [the Committee to Protect Journalists]. On that same day she received three private number phone calls warning her that a police investigation had been opened against her and [her husband, reporter Frank] Correa for 'dangerousness,' the journalists told […]
"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expresses deep concern over the recent increase in mobile internet fees in Cuba, describing it as an indirect censorship mechanism that deepens the informational isolation of the population and restricts the right to freedom of expression. The new commercial measures, announced by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and implemented […]
"ARTICLE 19 condemns the arbitrary detention of Carlos Milanés, an independent journalist for ADN Cuba, Cubanet and Radio Martí, on May 25 this year in Havana, by State Security agents. The incident was compounded by multiple aggressions such as threats of disappearance, physical aggressions, a raid on his home and the destruction of several personal […]
"On his social media this Wednesday [May 38], independent Cuban journalist José Luis Tan Estrada announced his arrival in Mexico after a 45-day journey that included crossing the Darién jungle, five months after State Security forced him to leave the island. 'After crossing the dangerous Darién jungle, traveling through more than ten countries by land, […]
“The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (SRFOE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) releases its thematic report ‘Exile of Journalists and Freedom of Expression’, a document that examines the rising number of journalists across the Americas forced to leave their countries of origin, as well as the causes, challenges […]
“The health condition of Zoila Pérez, mother of Cuban political prisoner José Gabriel Barrenechea, is rapidly worsening as prison authorities deny the dissident journalist and professor the possibility of saying goodbye to her in her last days. Despite the seriousness of her condition and the explicit request of Zoila herself in a video broadcast on […]
“Independent Cuban journalist Carlos Michael Morales, was summoned again this Monday [April 21] by the Municipal Court of Caibarién [central Cuba], along with his employer, in the midst of a campaign to harass him deployed by State Security. Morales was sentenced in May 2024 to 8 months imprisonment for the crime of 'disobedience', a sanction […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the arrest and prolonged pre-trail detention of Cuban freelance reporters Yadiel Hernández and José Gabriel Barrenechea, who both write for the online newspaper 14ymedio, and calls on Cuban authorities to release them immediately. [...] Hernández, 33, was arrested Jan. 24 while reporting on drug trafficking in […]