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 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today demanded an investigation into the death of a Colombian journalist who police say suffered fatal head injuries after falling from a police vehicle — despite claims from family and colleagues that the journalist was instead beaten and violently thrown from the truck. Guillermo Quiroz Delgado died in a hospital […]

One year ago, to the day, in the small town of Ponta Porã along Brazil’s border with Paraguay, two motorcycle-bound assailants pulled up next to journalist Paulo Roberto Carlos Rodrigues, known as Paulo Rocaro, and fired a deadly round of at least 12 bullets.  Two months later, in the centre of the same town, a […]