The International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today demanded that Mexican federal and state authorities immediately investigate the murder of a freelance journalist in the central Mexican state of Puebla on Wednesday. According to local media, Adrián Silva Moreno, a contibutor to the newspaper Puntual, was gunned […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed reports that authorities in Colombia, Bolivia, and Honduras have arrested suspects in the recent killings of four journalists, but underscored the importance of conducting complete and comprehensive investigations. “These arrests appear to be a positive first step,” IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills said.  “But we urge investigators […]

A well-known Honduran television presenter and two others were killed Monday morning when they came under fire from unknown assailants while exiting the studios of Maya TV in Tegucigalpa. Noel Alexander Valladares, 28, popularly known as “El Tecolote” (“The Owl”), hosted a daily entertainment program of the same name in which he administered a lottery […]

Read this article in Spanish A well-known Honduran radio journalist kidnapped on his way to work last week was found dead late last night in a housing development outside Tegucigalpa, news reports said, bringing the number of journalists killed in the violence-ridden Central American country this year to four. The body of Ángel Alfredo Villatoro […]