Lea este artículo en español In a tiny town in Argentina’s sparsely populated La Pampa province, a newspaper editor was assaulted on 19 January by the wife and son of the town’s deputy mayor after publishing a piece critical of the municipal government. A 26-year-old community newspaper in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a circulation of […]

A Brazilian journalist was shot dead late Sunday by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle in the town of Ponta Porã, near the Paraguayan border. Paulo Roberto Carlos Rodrigues, who went by the name Paulo Rocaro, was driving home through the center of Ponta Porã at approximately 23:30 when the attack occurred, according to Mercosulnews.com, […]

Outspoken and controversial political journalist Mário Randolfo Marques Lopes was kidnapped with his girlfriend, Maria Aparecida Guimarães, and ruthlessly executed yesterday at point blank range in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lopes and his girlfriend were seized Wednesday, reportedly by three men, who held the couple for 22 hours before taking them to […]

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]