Making the wrong commentary about the drug war in Mexico could create problems for public figures. Take the case of Kate del Castillo, a Mexican...
Actor del Castillo makes online request to drugs lord
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Ana Arana
Ana Arana
Tensions rise between Ecuadorian President and free expression watchdog
Tension has been escalating between the Organisation of American States' Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Ecuadorian President...
Guatemala: Legacy of civil war damages press freedom
A barely concealed battle is brewing in Guatemala over the legacy of the 38-year civil war which ended in 1996. It has affected press freedom,...
Guatemala : Free press threatened by paramilitaries and vigilantes
Threats against freedom of the press in Guatemala have been highlighted by the case of freelance journalist Lucia Escobar. While government directed...
Mexican news site shuts down after cyber attack
The website of the weekly newspaper Riodoce was taken down by a cyber attack. The DDoS attack follows the murders of two unidentified twitter users...
Twitter user arrested for joking about helicopter crash
At least one Mexican Twitter user was detained by local police after a series of sarcastic tweets made after a helicopter crash that killed Mexico's...
Mexico: Second moderator from anti-crime site killed
The fourth murder of a blogger in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas has confirmed the suspicion many journalists have in this country: that...
Members of “Voodoo group” responsible for journalists’ murders
New reports indicate the murder of two female journalists in Mexico City in September was carried out by a group of Santeria followers, the...
Wikileaks hits Argentina
Like in a good spy novel, Santiago O'Donnell met Julian Assange, the head of Wikileaks, in an English country house after taking a serpentine route....
For Zetas, Guatemala is the new Mexico
Mexico's most ruthless drug cartel, the Zetas, have expanded throughout Guatemala in the last four years to the point where they control three...
Journalist’s decapitation another warning to social media users
Mexican organised drug cartels have again threatened social network users using a mutilated body. In the second incident this month, the decapitated...
Murders a warning to Mexican social media users
The butchered bodies of a young man and a woman were found on Tuesday hanging from freeway overpass in Nuevo Laredo, Taumalipas on the US-Mexico...