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 […]

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 […]

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 […]