The International Press Institute (IPI) is horrified by the kidnapping and possible murder of a well-known television journalist yesterday in Honduras’s second-largest city of San Pedro Sula. IPI urges police to continue their search for Anibal Barrow and to pursue all possible leads in bringing his kidnappers to justice. Barrow, 58, an agronomist and university […]

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 […]