Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced it will conduct missions to four Caribbean countries this summer as the next step in an ongoing effort to abolish criminal defamation laws in the region. IPI Representatives, including Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie, will travel in June to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, and […]

With a heavily bandaged head and a noticeable speech impediment, Peruvian reporter Jaime Núñez del Prado described to fellow journalists how four men stormed into his broadcasting studio on Monday and badly beat him – on the orders, he said, of the local mayor. Núñez del Prado told television cameras he believes Calca Mayor Condori […]

Unidentified men on Wednesday gunned down a Peruvian television presenter outside his home, making him the second journalist murdered in just over a week and the third to be killed in the country this year. The Lima-based Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported that José Oquendo Reyes, the director and presenter of BTV Channel 45 […]

Prominent Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco was shot to death along with his wife and son by gunmen who broke into their home in the city of Veracruz early Monday morning. A motive for the murders has not been determined, but Lopez Velasco’s role as the editor of newspaper Notiver established him as a […]