"A federal judge found guilty the second person implicated in the murder of journalist Israel Vázquez Rangel, who was killed in an ambush on Nov. 9, 2020. His name is José Luis, alias 'el Pizzero.' He is an accomplice of Martín Eduardo, who was already sentenced to 20 years in prison in December 2021. The […]
"The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (SRFOE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) emphatically condemns the murder of journalists Edin Alonso and Hugo Gutiérrez in Guatemala and calls on the State to investigate the facts in a complete, effective and impartial manner, as well as to prosecute and punish […]
"A little over nine years after the murder of journalist Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) confirmed the arrest and formal imprisonment of another one of the alleged perpetrators. His name is Josué 'N' alias El Celaya, who was arrested by federal authorities in Sonora. [...] Goyo, as […]
"Guatemala's National Civil Police (PNC, by its acronym in Spanish) has reported that two journalists were killed on Friday night [Aug. 11] in the department of Retalhuleu [Guatemala] after being attacked with firearms, according to the Guatemalan newspaper La Hora. A preliminary police report revealed that the two journalists were on their way home, located […]
"For 6 months now the National Protection Unit (UNP, by its Spanish acronym) has been denying access to information to the family of journalist Rafael Moreno, murdered in October last year in Montelíbano, Córdoba [Colombia]. The family seeks access to the documents of the individual protection process and risk assessment, as well as the implementation […]
"The killings of two journalists in one week in Mexico has renewed calls for the country’s media community to be given better protection. The most recent attack took place Saturday in Acapulco, Guerrero state, when Nelson Matus, the director of news website Lo Real de Guerrero, was fatally shot outside a store. The previous Saturday, […]
"Crime reporter Nelson Matus Peña, 42, was shot to death Saturday afternoon [July 15] in Acapulco, Mexico. Matus Peña was the editor of the news portal Lo Real de Guerrero. He was also a photojournalist for the now defunct Revista Alarma, the newspaper El Alarmante and the news platform Agora Guerrero. [...] Matus is the […]
"On March 26, 2018, a team of El Comercio newspaper was captured in the border area between Ecuador and Colombia by the Colombian armed group Oliver Sinisterra Front. Days later, in April, the murder of Javier Ortega (journalist), Paúl Rivas (photographer) and Efraín Segarra (driver) was confirmed, after failed negotiations between captors and Ecuadorian authorities. […]
"As an act of 'memory and reparation for the victims' relatives' was how the Government described the commemoration held this Tuesday, in [the presidential palace of] La Moneda, on the occasion of Journalist's Day in Chile [celebrated on July 11]. [...] According to official information, around 230 journalists suffered political imprisonment, in addition to another […]
"The Prosecutor of [the Mexican state of] Nayarit, Petronilo Díaz Ponce Medrano, confirmed to La Jornada newspaper that journalist Osiris Maldonado de la Paz, who was kidnapped on July 3, was found alive [...]. Maldonado de la Paz was abducted in recent days, as also was Jonathan Lora Ramírez, who was last seen in the […]
"At the beginning of the 'Dialogue for the Truth' promoted by the Commission for the Truth, Historical Clarification and the Promotion of Justice for Serious Human Rights Violations committed from 1965 to 1990 in the Northwest and West [of Mexico], Fernando Zepeda Hurtado, a journalist from Mazatlán who for many years was head of information […]
"One year after the murder of journalist Antonio de la Cruz and his daughter Cynthia, the Attorney General's Office (FGR, by its Spanish acronym) announced on Wednesday [June 28] that Rafael Santiago Arano Rodríguez was apprehended and a judge ruled that he must face trial for the crime of aggravated homicide. De la Cruz was […]