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A Press Freedom Crisis Unfolds in Latin America

The tactics for silencing journalists in L.A. and the Caribbean are evolving, appearing in legislation and court decisions across the region.

Both laureates & their colleagues have been subjected to harassment, intimidation and violence for their work exposing injustice and abuse…

The Committee to Protect Journalists criticized the British court’s decision to keep alive the US appeal to extradite Julian Assange.

Assailants threw several explosives into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Clarín Group, the largest media conglomerate in Argentina.

The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed grave concern over the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s arrest & detention of two journalists.

Over the past year, authorities have expanded their arsenal of tactics to suppress independent reporting and target individual journalists…

In Mexico, a gunman shot and killed journalist Fredy Lopez Arevalo at his home in the southern state of Chiapas.

The reporter was abducted by police officers as she was walking to her home on her way back from a visit to one of her neighbors.

Unidentified attackers shot and killed González, founder and editor of the Facebook-based news outlet Portal Morelos Noticias, in Cuernavaca,

The OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression reports that there is no Rule of Law is these countries, nor safeguards for journalists.