ARTICLE 19 Mexico and Central America expressed its concern over threats of legal action against Honduran journalist Helen Montoya Aguilera, of the news outlet Reportar Sin Miedo (Report Without Fear), following the publication of an investigation into alleged nepotism and conflicts of interest linked to the political circle of Honduran President Nasry “Tito” Asfura. The […]
"Investigative journalist and founder of Epicentro TV, Clara Elvira Ospina, received death threats on social media. On Feb. 4, Ospina reported on X (formerly Twitter) that a user identified as 'Luis Hidalgo W' responded to her posts with threatening messages. 'Your days are numbered, you son of a b****,' were the words the individual used […]
"The organization Article 19 condemned the fact that independent journalist Frida Guerrera has received death threats on her personal Facebook account, starting on Jan. 14, 2026. According to the NGO and as reported by the journalist herself, an unknown individual threatened to harm her, and after she published about it on her own social media, […]
“According to interviews with the journalists…they were harassed by members of the National Guard upon arriving at the scene [of an accident in which a guard unit overturned]. The National Guard members demanded a supposed ‘federal license’ from the journalists to carry out their work and threatened to arrest them or confiscate their cell phones […]
"In a widely disseminated social media video reviewed by [the Committee to Protect Journalists] (CPJ), [Jimmy ‘Barbecue’] Cherizier — leader of the 'Viv Ansamn' gang coalition that has laid siege to Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince — appeared to offer a $50,000 reward for [Radio TV Caraibes (RCTV) news host Ronald] Desormes’ life as he expressed […]
"The escalation of attacks against the team of [Cuban digital media outlet] elTOQUE continues. In a new attempt to silence us, the unofficial State Security website, Razones de Cuba, has published an alleged list of our media outlet's ‘executives’ who are allegedly being investigated by that agency. These individuals, they say, ‘(...) may be extradited […]
"Community journalist Max Emiliano Negrete González, who documents the lives and struggles of Indigenous communities in southern Mexico City, reported receiving death threats through Instagram. One anonymous account sent him a message saying he had 'eight days to live.' He said the threats may be tied to his reporting on land and territorial defense issues […]
“In a video released in the last few hours, alias Iván Mordisco, top leader of the FARC dissidents, reappeared to issue a series of warnings while the country is still debating the recent bombing in which several minors recruited by that armed group died. The message, recorded in a jungle area, mixes political speeches, unfounded […]
"Jennifer Ortiz, a Nicaraguan journalist who became a naturalized Spanish citizen and is the director of the Nicaragua Investiga platform [living in Costa Rica], reported on Wednesday [Nov. 12] that, after receiving death threats, Costa Rican authorities recommended she abandon journalism and delete the content of her work in the media outlet she has directed […]
"Journalist Paco Cedeño, known for covering crime and public safety in the eastern state of Morelos, received a death threat through an intimidating message left next to human remains in the town of Cuautla. The threat was reported Monday, Nov. 10, when, according to local media, residents in the area alerted authorities after finding a […]
"Journalist Adela Navarro, co-director of Semanario Zeta, filed a complaint with the Attorney General's Office of the State of Baja California (FGE) in Mexico for acts of intimidation that occurred at her offices. The complaint arose after businessman Manuel Cisneros Romero, accompanied by his lawyer and armed bodyguards, visited the media outlet's offices on Friday, […]
"A far-right activist from Portugal, accused of making death threats to a Brazilian journalist, was arrested on Tuesday (Oct. 21) in Vila Nova, in the Metropolitan region of Porto, in the north of the country, and had his preventive detention ordered by the Court after going through his first hearing this Thursday (Oct. 23). Bruno […]