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Guatemala – Journalist gunned down in southeastern department of Jutiapa
Reporters Without Borders and the CERIGUA Journalists’ Observatory condemn journalist Jaime Napoleón Jarquín Duarte’s murder on 20 March in Ciudad Pedro de Alvarado, in the southeastern department of Jutiapa. The two partner organizations urge the authorities to carry out a rapid investigation in order to identify those responsible – both the perpetrators and the instigators – and bring them to justice. Jarquín, 63, was playing cards on the street with three friends when gunmen got out of a farm (…)
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Honduras – Journalist suspends popular radio programme amid mounting threats
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about Julio Ernesto Alvarado, the producer of the current affairs programmes “Medianoche” on Tegucigalpa-based Radio Globo and “Mi Nación” on its sister TV station, Globo TV, because of a recent increase in the threats and acts of intimidations against him that began a year ago. Alvarado, 60, who is vice-president of the Organization of Ibero-American Journalists, told the Honduran Committee for the Families of Disappeared Detainees (COFADEH) on 5 March (…)
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Colombia – A journalist and writer, victim of a violent assault, suspends his writing activities
Reporters Without Borders strongly denounces the violent acts, that can be considered barbaric, endured by Germán Uribe, a Colombian journalist and writer. The incident occurred on February 28, 2013 at his home in Subachoque in the region of Cundinamarca. He has since suspended his writing activity but hopes to work again once he recovers from [...]
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Venezuela – Globovisión faces sanctions for its interpretation of the constitution
Venezuela’s National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) launched proceedings on 9 January against the terrestrial television station Globovisión over its broadcast of four clips about the postponement of the inauguration of President Hugo Chavez for a new six-year term, originally scheduled for the following day. The videos are based on a specific interpretation of Article 231 of Venezuela’s Bolivarian constitution. The station was banned from rebroadcasting them and from expressing any (…)
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Brazil – Rio radio station manager is first journalist murdered in Americas in 2013
Renato Machado Gonçalves, the manager and joint owner of Radio Barra FM in Rio de Janeiro state, has become the first journalist to be killed in the western hemisphere in 2013. He was gunned down as he left his home in the north of the state yesterday. “The motive has not yet been determined, but robbery has already been ruled out, and the manner in which the crime was carried out clearly indicates that it was a targeted murder,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The victim’s profession as a (…)
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Honduras – RWB alerts minister to case of journalist threatened by her “protectors”
Ana Pineda, Minister of Justice and Human Rights Ramon Custodio, Honduran Human Rights Commissioner Dear Minister/Dear Commissioner Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that campaigns for freedom of information, urges you to take immediate action to ensure effective protection for the journalist and human rights activist Itsmania Erohyna Pineda Platero. Reporters Without Borders has previously campaigned on her behalf, together with other international (…)
