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Representatives of the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa receive the 2025 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize at a ceremony in Brussels, Belgium.
Press Freedom
La Prensa’s journalism is a blow to Nicaragua’s dictatorship, says newspaper manager

The Ortega-Murillo regime withdrew from UNESCO after it awarded its press freedom prize to the Nicaraguan newspaper. La Prensa General Manager Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro said the regime’s reaction shows the importance of the paper's work.

President Nayib Bukele walks with top security and government officials inside El Salvador’s high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), flanked by rows of heavily armed police officers.
Press Freedom
El Faro journalists fear arrest after reporting on Bukele’s alleged gang ties

El Faro, the leading investigative outlet in El Salvador, says the government is preparing arrest warrants against its journalists following publication of interviews linking President Nayib Bukele’s political rise to support from gangs.

Digital Native
Cross-border investigation uncovers gold smuggling network tearing through South America’s rainforests

For nearly a year, a team of journalists crossed borders to trace illegal gold mining from Perú to Colombia to Venezuela. They found a web of corruption, violence, and environmental destruction operating with the complicity of those in power.

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Press Freedom
Press freedom is eroding in Latin America as the financial viability of independent news outlets grows increasingly uncertain

A new Reporters Without Borders report finds economic instability hurt the media industry in most Latin American countries last year. Nicaragua, under an increasingly repressive dictatorship, overtook Cuba as the region’s worst country for press freedom.