Argentina

Silvio Novelino reported, after having received a series of threats, that in the early morning of 20 August 2012 a molotov cocktail was thrown at his car, which was in his garage next to his home, where his family was sleeping.

FM UNO journalist Hernán García was threatened at gunpoint after he repeatedly called for transparency at the local administrative level in a community in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

FOPEA propone fijar un límite a los reclamos de daños morales contra periodistas En el marco del inminente debate sobre la reforma al Código Civil, el Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA) enviará una propuesta al Congreso de la NaciónArgentina para que se incluya en el nuevo texto un tope lógico y previsible de los montos […]

Marcelo Massimini believes the attack is related to a TV report on the unsanitary conditions at a public school in Longchamps and the impact on the students.

Gustavo Tinetti told FOPEA he thinks the incident is related to an investigation he is doing on the 9 de Julio mayor, Walter R. Battistella, and accusations of tax evasion.

FOPEA called for quick action, stressing the need for an immediate end to the threats against Ester Lutz and Gustavo Raffin.

“Drug trafficking is one of the greatest enemies of journalism in Latin America and, to some extent, it made the area become in 2011 the world’s most dangerous region for media workers,” says IPI.

Omar Millalonco and Lilen Mercado study journalism at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and work to defend human rights.

Mariano Martinez, a journalist at Radio FM Popular, was severely beaten and left unconscious by activists linked to the mayor of Los Antiguos.

The team was investigating the alleged labour exploitation of 15 Bolivian workers, most of them children.

The organisation characterised attempts by the government to control press freedom via a law regulating the manufacture and marketing of newsprint as “malicious”.

Five committees of the Chamber of Deputies at an extraordinary session yesterday approved a bill declaring the manufacture, commercialization and distribution of newsprint for newspapers to be of public interest.

The station owner believes the incident is linked to its critical coverage of local mayor Nelson Carvalho.

A preliminary investigation indicates that the fire may have been deliberately set because several rags doused in kerosene were found on the premises.

Journalist María Gracia Martín and camera operator Raúl Vicessi were covering a story when a young man pulled out a gun and pointed it at them.

Rodolfo Walsh was tortured and killed by the military dictatorship in 1977.