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Kidnapped Honduran journalist found dead

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 […]

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Photojournalist killed in Ecuador

Byron Baldeón, a local freelance photojournalist for Ecuadorian daily newspaper Extra was fatally shot on July 1 on his way home, 61 kilometers from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Eyewitnesses said Baldeon was shot nine times at close range by two unidentified men on motorcycles, according to a statement from Ecuadorian press freedom group Fundamedios. Baldeon and his […]

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Journalist killed in northern Colombia

A Colombian community radio reporter was gunned down yesterday evening in a small city near the Caribbean coast by two unknown, motorcycle-bound assailants, becoming the second journalist killed in the country in the past two weeks. Colombian media reported that Jesús Martínez Orozco, 42, was on his way to visit a friend in his hometown […]

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Colombian journalist dies following police altercation

The International Press Institute (IPI) today demanded an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who police say suffered fatal head injuries after falling from a police vehicle — despite claims from family and colleagues that the journalist was instead beaten and violently thrown from the truck. Guillermo Quiroz Delgado died in a hospital […]

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