Mexican politicians are using social networks in sleight of hand similar to the ones they used in elections before the age of technology, say...
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Trinidad: Police raid newspaper
Police in Trinidad raided the daily newspaper Newsday on 9 February and searched the home of one of its journalists, seizing three computers and two...
Ecuador: Pro-Correa libel verdict upheld
Ecuador's highest court has upheld a criminal libel verdict favouring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist...
Brazil: Second journalist killed in under a week
Brazilian newspaper editor Paulo Roberto Cardoso Rodrigues was shot dead on Sunday night, making him the second Brazilian journalist killed in less...
Brazil: Political journalist shot dead
Brazilian political journalist Mário Randolfo Marques Lopes and his girlfriend were kidnapped and shot dead in the early hours of 9 February in...
Debate over public airways limited by rejected TV merge
It has become a game of “he said”, “she said”. But two recent scuttles that developed in Mexico over telecommunications and television channels are...
Cuba: Journalist faces decades in prison
A Cuban journalist is facing more than ten years in prison for alleged corruption offences. José Antonio Torres, a correspondent for Granma, the...
Dominican Republic: Radio reporter becomes first journalist facing jail for libel
Radio journalist Johnny Alberto Salazar has been found guilty of libelling a lawyer, he is the first journalist to be jailed for defamation in the...
Cuba: Jailed dissident dies after hunger strike
Dissident Wilmar Villar Mendoza, has died in a hospital in eastern Cuba following a 56-day hunger strike. Villar launched his strike shortly after...
Honduras: lawyer murdered after police torture accusations
Honduran lawyer Jose Ricardo Rosales was shot dead by three hooded gunmen on 17 January, three days after he was quoted in newspaper Diario Tiempo,...
Colombia: Bogota mayor accused of press censorship
A Colombian news network has accused Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro of operating a "totalitarian" approach to the press. In a web article published on...
Venezuela: Journalist threatened via Twitter
A Venezuelan journalist has received threatening messages via Twitter. Luis Carlos Díaz, Communication Networks Coordinator of the Gumilla Center, a...
