Bolivian President Evo Morales promulgated a new Telecommunications, Information Technology and Communication Law that establishes new rules for the distribution of radio and television frequencies.
A court in Havana, Cuba, sentenced ex-journalist and businessman Sebastián Martínez Ferraté to seven years in prison for the corruption of minors, reported AFP.
The state court of Rondônia censored the Brazilian radio station Cultura FM in Porto Velho, reported the website Rondônia Dinâmica.
The hacker collective Anonymous announced "Operation Free Condor" in a YouTube video to protest the Ecuadorian government's policies against freedom of expression, reported the newspaper El Universo.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have idenitified a suspect in the killing of TV journalist José Silvestre, reported the newspaper 7 Días in Santo Domingo.
The San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists (SAAHJ) posthumously recognized almost 70 Mexican journalists killed by drug violence south of the U.S.-Mexican border with the Henry Guerra Lifetime Achievement Award.
Yuri Galván Quesada, journalist for the newspaper Provencia in Michoacán, claims to have been illegally arrested while investigating corruption in a health services center in Morelia, the capital of the Mexican state of Michoacán.
On Monday, Aug. 8, debuts a television series in Mexico, Octavo Mandamiento (Eighth Commandment), about the problems Mexican journalists.
Marco Aurélio Bertaiolli, the mayor of the city of Mogi das Cruzes in Brazil, verbally attacked via telephone a reporter for the newspaper Mogi News because the politician was upset over a critical editorial, reported Blog do Miro.
A Honduran judge issued arrest warrants for a journalist and 16 environmental leaders for allegedly opposing a forest management plan in the town of El Porvenir, in central Honduras.
The Peruvian Congress investigated telephone calls made by a group of journalists in 2008 who alleged corruption by several government officials, including President Alan García, reported the newspaper La República.
Behind Mexico, tied in second place are Brazil and Honduras as the Latin American countries with the most killings of journalists this year, according to the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), reported Folha de S. Paulo.