“The National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP, for its initials in Spanish) rejected this Monday [March 24] statements from Peruvian Prime Minister Gustavo Adrianzén, who said some media are giving 'a soft coup', in reference to the investigations they're carrying out on President Dina Boluarte and members of her administration. 'The ANP rejects the […]
A video captured the moment when a taxi driver, without no apparent provocation, accelerated his vehicle toward journalist Belén Goncalves of Ecuavisa as she was preparing to report live on air about flooding in the Guayas province of Ecuador. Goncalves told Fundamedios that before the incident, another driver passed near her team, shouting politically charged […]
"A demonstrator assaulted a reporter from the channel LN+ [belonging to Argentina's La Nación group] on Wednesday, Feb 19. The incident occurred during a protest at Congress [in Buenos Aires] over various grievances, including cuts to retirees, failure to update bonuses [for retirees] and intervention at the Bonaparte Hospital. The aggressor insulted Nicolás Edwin, the […]
“A group of supporters of the Libertad y Refundación (Libre) political party attacked journalist María Fernanda Martínez on Sunday afternoon [Feb. 16] while she was covering an event of the mayor [of Tegucigalpa, Honduras]. The journalist said she had already done a live broadcast and had asked the cameraman to take back-up shots, when suddenly […]
“Article 19 – Office for Mexico and Central America warned of a second attack this year on digital media in Mexico. Since Feb. 4, the website of media outlet MTP Noticias in Puebla has been the victim of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This is the second attack of this type documented this year, [after the […]
“Journalist Alan García Zúñiga was released the morning of Sunday [Feb. 2] after being abducted on Jan. 22 in Poza Rica, Veracruz [Mexico]. In a press release, the State Commission for the Attention and Protection of Journalists (CEAPP, by its Spanish acronym) said that, thanks to a joint operation between federal and state authorities, García […]
“Journalist and writer Marco Sifuentes — host of the online news program ‘La Encerrona,’ which has denounced the [corruption scandal known as] 'Rolexgate' against the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte — reported having been the victim of aggression in Lima on Saturday [Nov. 30], after giving a talk on journalism. Sifuentes shared on his X […]
“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 […]