The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at the death of Salvadoran Channel 33 television cameraman Alfredo Hurtado, who was gunned down on a bus Tuesday evening in suburban San Salvador on his way to work. Authorities said two unknown young men boarded the bus, approached Hurtado and opened fire, leaving a dozen bullet […]

IPI is saddened by the Wednesday 2 September murder in El Salvador’s Tonacatepeque municipality of French-Spanish photojournalist and documentary-maker Christian Poveda. Police found Poveda’s body in a car in the small village of El Rosario, with multiple bullet wounds to the head. Poveda, who had closely followed the lives of El Salvador’s ‘Mara 18’ gang […]