Attempts to push through a media law in Argentina could end up destroying one of the country's most critical broadcast outlets. Ed Stocker reports A bitter battle between Argentina’s largest media empire, Grupo Clarín, and the government shows no...
Violent confrontations in Mexico City on 1 December between police and thousands of demonstrators protesting the swearing in of President Enrique Peña Nieto continue to reverberate, as human rights and media protection organisations grapple with...
The Brazilian Congress’ lower house has killed a draft bill that would have pioneered the world's first “Internet Bill of Rights." Feted by free-speech activists and negotiated over several years, the bill used a civil rights framework to guarantee...
In Mexico drug cartels continue to dictate news agenda — fear of retaliation influences news outlets’ decisions on what to publish. Ana Arana and Daniela Guazo reveal the results of a new study that exposes the depth to which the public are kept in the dark
On 30 October, the state government of Veracruz announced it had solved the murder of Proceso magazine reporter Regina Martinez, who was killed in April this year. In her 10 years as a Proseco journalist, Martinez had frequently reported on drug...
Coverage of the US presidential race has been dominated by Republican and Democratic candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Sara Yasin speaks to Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who says minority parties are censored
Last August, Manuel Berumen, a university professor, received the shock of his life after kissing his wife as they strolled with their four-year-old son in a public plaza in Leon, Guanajuato. A woman complained about the "indecency" and he ended up...
Oscar Ramirez wants to open his own business. He wants to learn air conditioning and plumbing. He is dreaming big. “I don’t want to work for someone else all my life,” he told me last week. His dreams are basic. Just a few weeks ago, Oscar and his...
The fate of a masked blogger has set Mexican social networking sites ablaze over the last couple of weeks, leaving behind a trail of mystery and confusion. A young anti-establishment blogger working under the name el5anto disappeared on 8...
The protests against controversial film “Innocence of the Muslims” follow a pattern familiar since the days of the Satanic Verses fatwa, says James Kirchick. And so do the reactions of many western liberals
Response: Myriam Francois-Cerrah | Film protests about much more than religion