Monitor Michoac News Today

Drug violence and government corruption have put the country’s journalists in peril. In one town, reporters tried to fight back.

Earlier this year Joel Vera was forced to shut down his online news portal in Mexico after two colleagues were murdered.

Juan Arjon Lopez, 62, is the latest of a string of journalist killings in Mexico, with at least 14 murdered so far this year.

Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi, director of the news site El Veraz, and Sheila Garcia, a reporter for the site, were murdered outside a convenience store in the municipality of Cosoleacaque on Monday.

Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been killed so far this year

March 2022 in the Americas: A free expression round up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Laura Vidal, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

Eight journalists have been murdered in Mexico so far in 2022. Here is more about who they are and where the investigations into their deaths stand.

Public school teachers across Bolivia struck March 18 over education funding, while management locked out 530 workers at a Rolls Royce aircraft engine maintenance facility in Montreal.

Armando Linares and 'Monitor Michoacán' had received death threats over the outlet’s reporting on alleged corruption by state and municipal authorities. He confirmed to CPJ that he had been in contact with the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.

The Ukrainian president appealed to Congress with an emotional request for additional financial support, weaponry and a no-fly zone.