“Journalist associations in [the Mexican state of] Guerrero reported that their colleague Luis Daniel Nava, contributor to the magazine Proceso and reporter for the El Sur de Guerrero newspaper, was the victim of an apparent assault by two men dressed in black tactical clothing, with long weapons and military appearance, who allegedly threatened him by […]
"Nelin Escalante, a veteran journalist in Venezuela, has not been heard from since Friday [Oct. 25], Venezuelan press advocates said on Sunday, alleging he had been detained by government authorities in the country's capital. […] Venezuela's National College of Journalists (CNP, by its Spanish acronym) said in a post on social media that Escalante had […]
"Media unions [in the Dominican Republic] protested [in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros] to claim respect for freedom of expression and to demand sanctions against police agents for the aggression of several journalists and photojournalists. The heads of the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP, for its initials in Spanish), the National Union of […]
“A courier for the newspaper El Debate, in Culiacán [Mexico], was kidnapped in the morning [of Oct. 19] as he was on his way home. This occurred one day after the governor of [the state of] Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, promised to guarantee security for the workers of that publishing house after the shooting attack […]
“Journalist Danny Gómez, who was covering a police operation in the Mejoramiento Social neighborhood, [in the city of Santiago], was assaulted by a colonel of the [Dominican Republic] National Police. The incident occurred when Gómez was filming at the entrance to the Santiago Rodríguez General Hospital, where the police were preventing the entry and registration […]
“[On Sept. 26,] the 10th Criminal Court of Bogotá sentenced the former director of intelligence of Colombia's now-defunct Administrative Department of Security (DAS, for its acronym in Spanish), Enrique Alberto Ariza Rivas, to 12.5 years in prison for the crime of aggravated torture. In the first instance, the Court found him responsible for the persecution […]
Mexican journalist Humberto Padgett was the victim of an armed robbery on Friday, Sept. 13 in the municipality of Cuitzeo, in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Four unknown individuals pointed long guns at the journalist and took his vehicle, IDs and work equipment, the freedom of expression organization Artículo 19 reported in a thread on […]
“Journalist Cristian Cabrales, of the [Colombian] digital media outlet Plato y la Región Noticias, denounced an attack against him. In the early hours of Aug. 25, on the road from Plato to Tenerife, in [the department of] Magdalena, an unknown individual on a motorcycle shot at the journalist several times. Cabrales was returning from a […]
Mexican judges granted changes in preventive detention for former Mexican governor of Puebla, Mario Marín Torres, as well as Adolfo Karam Beltrán, former director of the judicial police. Both are accused of committing acts of torture against journalist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro and have been permitted to leave detention. Press freedom organization Article 19 said it […]
“The conviction of Humberto Allende, the mayor of [the city of] Cerro de las Cuentas [in the department of Cerro Largo, Uruguay], for sexual abuse had a controversial and televised closure: Allende threatened to hit and insulted a journalist who was covering the case and was seeking a statement [...] The journalist is Valeria Coronel. […]
“The Attorney General's Office of the State of Sonora [Mexico] reported that Jesús Eduardo 'N', also known as ‘El Chino Cuajo,’ 22, was sentenced to pretrial detention in the attack against journalist Federico Hans Hagelsieb Vanegas, which took place on July 17 outside the journalist's home in [the city of] Caborca. In a press release, […]
At least two journalists were shot in the last two days in Mexico, regional outlets reported. The evening of Tuesday, July 16, unidentified gunmen fired into the home of César Guzmán, director of the digital outlet Código Rojo Cancún in the state of Quintana Roo. Guzmán was home but was not hit. He had been […]