After a vote recount of Mexico's presidential elections, Enrique Peña Nieto, of the Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) was finally declared...
Mexican media attacked for election bias
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Ecuador: President Correa calls newspaper editor “wicked” in new verbal attack
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has personally attacked Gustavo Cortez, editor of the leading daily newspaper El Universo. During a TV broadcast...
Chile: TV journalist suspended for satirising Pinochet tribute
A Chilean TV journalist has been suspended after making satirical remarks about a tribute to the country's former dictator Augusto Pinochet. After...
Mexico: Missing reporter under government protection
Mexican crime journalist Stephania Cardoso, who went missing with her two-year-old son on 8 June, is understood to be under the protection of the...
Media freedom centre stage as Mexicans go to polls
As Mexican voters get ready to eelect their next president1 July , all four candidates have made statements in support of free expression and the...
Another journalist murdered in eastern Mexico
Another journalist from the Mexican state of Veracruz was found murdered on 14 June. Victor Baez, the Veracruz state crime reporter for the national...
Mexico: Fourth journalist killed in Veracruz in two months
The body of Mexican journalist VĂctor Manuel Báez Chino was found yesterday near the main square in Xalapa, capital of Veracruz state, making him...
Mexico: Reporter goes missing with her son, aged two
A Mexican reporter has gone missing from her home in the state of Coahuila, along with her two-year-old son. Hypathia StephanĂa RodrĂguez Cardoso,...
El Salvador: Gang member sentenced to 30 years for cameraman murder
Gang member Jonathan MartĂnez Castro was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a San Salvador court on 31 May for the murder of Canal 33 cameraman...
Venezuela: Third news outlet attacked in a week
The headquarters of Venezuelan newspaper VersiĂłn Final, in the city of Maracaibo, was shot at nine times on 3 June, making the attack the third of...
Mexico: Constitutional amendment makes attacks on press a federal offence
A constitutional amendment was given final approval in Mexico yesterday [7 June] making attacks on the press a federal offence in Mexico. The...
Mexico: Columnist threatened after criticising presidential candidate
Political columnist Katia D’Artigues, of Mexican newspaper El Universal, has said she and her son have received death threats via Twitter for having...
