United for Salman Rushdie, and civic space's dizzying erosion in Brazil and Central America
August in the Americas: A round up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Laura Vidal, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
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August in the Americas: A round up produced by IFEX's Regional Editor Laura Vidal, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.
Fewer journalists means fewer stories about a community’s successes or stumbles, and thus more stumbles.
The suspect is the "alleged intellectual author of Margarito's murder" and head of a cartel cell, officials said.
Following the murders of four more journalists in Mexico in August, this year is already the deadliest ever for Mexico’s media, with a total of 14 journalists so far killed. This shocking situation calls for urgent action by Mexico’s government, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
A journalist who ran an online local news program was shot to death Monday in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said Monday that Fredid Román was gunned down in the state capital, Chilpancingo. Román’s program, “The Reality of Guerrero,”…