A Honduran photographer who formerly worked for deposed president Manuel Zelaya was found dead last week in Tegucigalpa, three years after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) requested that the Honduran state guarantee the photographer’s “life and personal integrity”. According to the Honduras press-freedom group C-Libre as well as media reports, the body of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Guatemalan authorities to conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Luis Alberto Lemus Ruano, who was shot dead on Sunday, April 7 in Jalpatagua in the Guatemalan district of Jutiapa. Lemus was vice president of the Association of Journalists of Jalpatagua (APJ), director of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed renewed concern over what appears to a rising level of violence against journalists in Guatemala after reporter Carlos Alberto Orellana Chávez was shot dead in the southern province of Suchitepéquez. According to news reports, local police have preliminarily suggested robbery as a motive in Orellana’s murder, given that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Colombian authorities to thoroughly investigate two recent brutal attacks on journalists. On July 29, Jesús Nadin Gómez García, manager of Radio Guadalajara, died after being shot twice in the face by unknown assailants as he entered his station in the city of Buga, Valle del Cauca department.  According […]