The former Peruvian spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos was sentenced to 20 years for a 1991 letter bomb that killed Melissa Alfaro, but the acquittal of the man accused of making and sending it is likely to prompt an appeal from her family.
Peru’s Constitutional Court voided the conviction of a former military officer in the 1988 murder of journalist Hugo Bustíos, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired under a new law.
The region recorded at least 17 killings, with Mexico the deadliest country. Experts say vitriol from authorities and entrenched impunity continue to fuel the attacks.
The murders of Mexican journalists Regina Martínez and Rubén Espinosa left their mark on filmmaker J. Xavier Velasco, who seeks to highlight violence against the press in Mexico.
Corruption, infiltration of organized crime and negligence by authorities are constant in the murders of 19 journalists since 1991, according to Alianza Paraguay, a collaborative, cross-border project led by Forbidden Stories and OCCRP.
A Salvadoran court sentenced three former officers to 15 years in prison for ordering an ambush that killed four Dutch journalists during the civil war. It’s the first time a crime of humanity documented by the UN Truth Commission has led to a conviction in El Salvador.
Three years after Dom Phillips was killed alongside Indigenous rights expert Bruno Pereira, fellow journalists completed his final work. He sought to answer how to save the world’s largest rainforest — and why.
In Ecuador’s northern border region, where journalist Patricio Aguilar was killed last month, violence, precarity, and lack of state protection are driving reporters to self-censor or leave the profession—deepening the region’s vacuum of information.
The botched hospital reopening in a gang-controlled Port-au-Prince neighborhood left two reporters dead and seven injured.
Two court cases seeking closure in the 1982 ambush and murders of four Dutch journalists in El Salvador are currently open in the U.S. and the Central American country.
These were the main challenges faced by journalism and press freedom during Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government in Mexico.
As part of its work to fight impunity in crimes against journalists, the Inter American Press Association launched the “Voices claiming justice” campaign. The first case highlighted in it is that of the Colombian journalist Gerardo Bedoya Borrero murdered in 1997 and whose crime remains unpunished.