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Conspiracy fears

Freedom of information threatened by abuse of Espionage Act

Published on 22 May 2013Read

Haïti

Stray bullet or murder?

Motive not yet known in radio journalist’s fatal shooting

Published on 21 May 2013Read

Guatemala

Second journalist murdered in Jutiapa department, motive still unknown

Reporters Without Borders and the Guatemala Information Centre (CERIGUA) condemn journalist and media owner Luis Alberto Lemus Ruano’s murder in a (...)

Published on 9 April 2013 Read

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 (...)

Published on 8 April 2013 Read

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 (...)

Published on 5 April 2013 Read

Venezuela

Presidential candidates urged to commit to promoting pluralism

Mr. Nicolás Maduro, acting president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Ms. María Josefina Bolívar Ms. Reina Sequera Mr. Henrique Capriles (...)

Published on 2 April 2013 Read

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 (...)

Published on 22 March 2013 Read

Honduras

Journalist suspends popular radio programme amid mounting threats

Reporters Without Borders is very worried about Julio Ernesto Alvarado, the producer of the current affairs programmes “Medianoche” on (...)

Published on 18 March 2013 Read

Colombia

A journalist and writer, victim of a violent assault, suspends his writing activities

Reporters Without Borders strongly denounces the violent acts, that can be considered barbaric, endured by Germán Uribe, a Colombian journalist (...)

Published on 18 March 2013 Read

Mexico

Newspapers in northern border states forced to censor themselves?

News website editor Jaime González Domínguez’s murder nine days ago in the northern state of Chihuahua has been followed by other setbacks to the (...)

Published on 12 March 2013 Read