Journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos was killed yesterday morning in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, according to news reports. Her driver and cousin, Delmer Osmar Canales Gutiérrez, also died when two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car and riddled them with dozens of bullets. Paz Villalobos was the director of the program “Three in the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Thursday’s murders of two journalists in the Central American countries of Guatemala and Honduras in unrelated attacks. Local TV presenter Yensi Roberto Ordoñez Galdámez was killed in the southern province of Escuintla, Guatemala. He was found in his car with stab wounds to the chest and neck, Guatemalan […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of a journalist in western El Salvador. Radio host Nelson Hernandez was stabbed to death in the early hours on 8 June, the Spanish news agency EFE reported. He was reportedly found dead in a river. The journalist, a host at Radio SKY, was said to […]

Journalist Luis Eduardo Gómez was gunned down last week in Colombia, becoming the first journalist to be killed in that country this year. Gómez, 70, was murdered on 30 June in Arboletes (Antioquia) while walking home with his wife. The shooters escaped on motorbikes. An independent journalist who had recently been writing about tourism and […]