"The Peruvian Press Council has called on government officials to drop a case into journalists Rosana Cueva, news director at América Televisión and Canal N, Eduardo Quispe, and Beto Ortiz, who are accused of illegal trafficking of personal data and involvement in organized crime. The investigation began after Zamir Villaverde, a criminal convicted and sentenced […]
"Journalist Clara Elvira Ospina has reported being the target of a systematic attack, directly accusing government officials of being behind the messages. In a video posted on social media, she said these officials are sent from anonymous profiles to intimidate and insult her relentlessly. In a video shared on her personal X account, the Epicentro […]
While reporting on a traffic jam in a sector of the city of Chiclayo, Peru, Fátima Constantino, a journalist for the media outlet Exitosa, was detained by members of the National Police on the morning of Jan. 28. According to local media, an agent approached her, called her out for recording and asked her to […]
"Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina, owner and director of local media outlet Cadena Sur TV, was murdered outside his home in the city of Ica (southern Peru), after having previously denounced extortionists, as reported by the National Association of Journalists (ANP, for its initials in Spanish) on Monday [Jan. 20]. [...] It added that, according to […]
"Ensuring a safe environment for journalists remains a critical challenge for Latin America's democracies. Since 2000, at least 338 journalists have been killed in the region, highlighting the urgent need for protection mechanisms to counter systemic violence. In a new report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its initials in French) analyzed journalist protection programs in […]
“Pope Francis held a private audience Monday [Dec. 9] with three journalists who have investigated scandals linked to the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana (SCV), a Catholic organization based in Peru. Paola Ugaz and Pedro Salinas have been the subject of multiple legal complaints and harassment on social media due to their reporting on the issue. […]
“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 […]
"Peruvian journalists Paola Ugaz and Pedro Salinas, who investigated sexual abuse in the Church, denounced this Friday [Nov. 8] at a press conference in Lima that they have been persecuted – through media and the courts – since 2018 by the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, the ultraconservative religious organization in Peru that in recent years […]
“In an Oct. 25 resolution, Peru Supreme Court Judge Juan Carlos Checkley ordered the Attorney General’s office to compel [investigative news website] IDL-Reporteros to turn over audio recordings that were part of its 2018 investigation into judicial corruption and to interrogate [Gustavo] Gorriti, its editor in chief. ‘It is appalling that the Peruvian judicial system […]
"The Peruvian justice system sentenced on Monday [Sept. 30] former military chief Alberto Rivero Valdeavellano to 18 years in prison for the forced disappearance of journalist Jaime Ayala in 1984, as well as for the premeditated murder and the disappearance of almost 70 other people in the Andean region of Ayacucho. Judge Miluska Cano read […]
Following a court decision as part of the lawsuits brought against her by the Peruvian Attorney General's Office, the secrecy of Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz's communications was lifted, according to the Spanish newspaper ABC, of which Ugaz is a correspondent in Lima. The Peruvian court requested from Ugaz's telephone operator all the records of her […]
“On Sept. 9, 2024, during a press conference, [President] Dina Boluarte's spokesperson, Fredy Hinojosa, asked the public prosecutor's office to investigate journalistic publications about popular protests against her. Hinojosa described as false the live broadcasts that allegedly show attacks on the president, which he considered an invitation to violence. He alluded to protests against Boluarte […]