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Day of mourning

Journalist’s murder highlights threat from organized crime, political tension

Published on 26 April 2013Read

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Fraught campaign

Campaign marked by censorship, post-election reprisals feared

Published on 18 April 2013Read

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Organized crime’s hand seen in border town radio station owner’s murder

Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the police investigation into yesterday evening’s murder of local radio station owner and (...)

Published on 7 February 2013 Read

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Amid continuing concern for journalists’ safety, EPP guerrillas claim bombing of radio station

Reporters Without Borders joins the Paraguayan Journalists’ Union (SPP) in demanding justice and protection for the journalists who were the (...)

Published on 8 October 2012 Read

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Censorship at Radio Nacional, threats and violence from president’s inner circle

In a continuing purge in the state-owned media, Carlos Goncalves, the producer of the Radio Nacional programme “Redpública,” was notified on 17 (...)

Published on 19 September 2012 Read

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In continuing purge, 27 employees fired from state TV

Twenty-seven journalists, technicians and other employees of state-owned TV Pública were denied entry to the TV station’s Asunción headquarters (...)

Published on 5 September 2012 Read

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Community radio stations face crackdown for “inciting crime”

After the purge of the state media in the wake of President Fernando Lugo’s removal from office by parliament in June last year, community radio (...)

Published on 14 August 2012 Read

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Purges in state media, community radios on alert

Three weeks after President Fernando Lugo was removed from office by parliament on 22 June, Paraguay’s state media are gripped by a climate of (...)

Published on 12 July 2012 Read

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State media conflicts subside, but public opinion divisions deepen

There seems to have been a let-up in the tension within the two state broadcasters – TV Pública and Radio Nacional – that was triggered by (...)

Published on 4 July 2012 Read

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Journalist targeted by drug traffickers may have to move abroad

Brazilian police have alerted the Paraguayan journalist Cándido Figueredo, a correspondent for the daily ABC Color in the northern department of (...)

Published on 20 January 2012 Read