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Mexico – Organized crime, local authorities threaten reporters and netizens
Reporting on the realities of Mexican life still carries enormous risk. Against this backdrop, Reporters Without Borders submitted recommendations on 4 March to the Human Rights Council of the United...
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Guatemala – Journalist gunned down in southeastern department of Jutiapa
Reporters Without Borders and the CERIGUA Journalists’ Observatory condemn journalist Jaime Napoleón Jarquín Duarte’s murder on 20 March in Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, in the southeastern department of...
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Mexico – Oaxaca community radios hounded for opposing wind farm
Reporters Without Borders condemns the harassment of community radio stations in the southern state of Oaxaca by the local authorities and international companies. The radio stations are opposing the...
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Argentina – Officials in Formosa province suspected in radio station fire
Reporters Without Borders hopes that the police will quickly establish who was responsible for the fire that caused major damage to Radio Génesis in Ingeniero Suárez, in the northern province Formosa,...
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Honduras – News coverage exposes journalists to growing danger
Land disputes, environmental problems linked to mining, purges of the police and the human rights situation are all key issues in Honduras but they all also pose a danger for journalists who have the...
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Ecuador – Journalist slain in Guayaquil, a day after escaping earlier murder...
Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into journalist Fausto Valdivieso’s murder yesterday in Guayaquil. The motive is not yet known but press reports quoted local...
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Paraguay – Campaign marked by censorship, post-election reprisals feared
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for democratization of the Paraguayan media and real media pluralism as the country prepares to elect a new president and congress on 21 April. The...
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Paraguay – Journalist’s murder highlights threat from organized crime,...
Paraguay’s celebration of its Day of the Journalist today is marked by mourning for press photographer Carlos Artaza, fatally shot two days ago by men on a motorcycle in Pedro Juan Caballero, a city...
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Cuba – Call for release of blogger held for past two months
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Cuban authorities to quickly release Angel Santiesteban-Prats, a writer and blogger who has been held for the past two months and who has been on hunger strike...
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Mexico – Journalist who fled abroad describes protective mechanism’s flaws
Reporters Without Borders is today releasing a video interview in which Verónica Basurto Gamero, a young independent journalist who used to be based in Mexico City, explains why she had to flee abroad...
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Brazil – Journalist slain near Rio, others mistreated by police in São Paulo
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by journalist José Roberto Ornelas de Lemos’ murder in Rio de Janeiro state on 11 June (picture). The editor of the Hora H newspaper, he was shot 44 times from a...
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Honduras – Journalist abducted just days ahead of military coup anniversary
Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the fate of Aníbal Barrow (picture), a journalist who was kidnapped in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on 24 June, four days ahead of the...
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Mexico – A journalist forced to flee, another murdered in lawless Mexico
Reporters Without Borders voices its support for “Sin Censura” (Without Censorship), a event due to take place in Mexico City on 11 July, in which books will be sold to raise funds to help the many...
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Mexico – Drug traffickers suspected in reporter’s murder in Oaxaca state
Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to do everything possible to shed light on the murder of Alberto López Bello, a newspaper reporter whose body was found alongside that of a policeman...
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Colombia –“Statutes of limitations are a tragic guarantee of eternal impunity”
Reporters Without Borders urges Colombia’s authorities and the prosecutor-general in particular to do what is necessary to prevent a 20-year statute of limitations from taking effect next week in the...
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Venezuela – Access to information threatened by decree creating new...
Reporters Without Borders shares the concerns voiced by organizations that represent journalists and media workers about the government’s 7 October decree creating a new intelligence agency called the...
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Cuba – Five dissident journalists freed after short detention
Mario Echevarría Driggs, David Águila Montero and William Cacer Díaz, arrested in Havana last week, were freed on 14 October 2013. Two correspondents for the Hablemos Press news center, Denis Noa...
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Colombia – Governor’s arrest does not resolve threats to four journalists
Paris, 15 October 2013 Dr. Juan Manuel Santos President of Colombia Mr. Eduardo Montealegre Lynett Prosecutor-General Maj. Gen. Rodolfo Palomino López National Police Director Dear President Santos,...
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Brazil – Radio station manager shot dead amid mounting violence against...
Reporters Without Borders condemns Rádio Meridional manager Cláudio Moleiro de Souza’s death in a shooting by an intruder inside the radio station in Jaru, in the northwestern state Rondônia, on 12...
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Mexico – Freedom of information loses champion in Mexico
Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn of journalist Mike O’Connor’s death on 29 December in Mexico City, where he represented the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Aged 67, he died of a...
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Mexico – New telecoms bill threatens freedom of information
On 24 March, the Mexican government introduced a telecommunications bill in the Senate that is intended to supplement existing federal telecoms legislation in force since 1995. It is officially...
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