IAPA expresses concern over multi-million dollar lawsuits
Mayor of San Salvador, Nayib Bukele, sues La Prensa Gráfica for six million dollars, alleging grievances caused by press investigations.
Gang members kill 23-year-old radio journalist in El Salvador
For the past several months, Nicolás García, 23, had been hosting a programme on El Carrizal-based radio Expressa, voces al aire in which he advised local residents on how to protect themselves from violence.
El Salvador newspaper misrepresented in unauthorised clone of its site
The Inter American Press Association asked the El Salvador Attorney General’s Office to carry out an exhaustive and swift investigation following a formal complaint of Internet attacks on the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica, an offense that has been repeated with increasing frequency in the countries of the Americas.
In El Salvador, freedom of information diminishes during president’s first year
The president’s relations with the media have been distant and he has shown little interest in answering questions.
TV cameraman stabbed to death near his home in El Salvador
Aged 23, Carlos José Orellana worked for local TV station Canal 99. The police investigating his death have not as yet suggested a possible motive.
TV crew covering trial in El Salvador receives menacing threats
Reporters Without Borders joins the Association of Salvadoran Journalists (APES) in calling for an investigation into a death threat made in broad daylight against a crew from the television station Canal 12 in Santa Tecla.
Gang member gets 30 years for TV cameraman’s murder
Jonathan Martínez Castro, a “marero” (gang member), was sentenced by a San Salvador court for the April 2011 murder of Canal 33 cameraman Alfredo Hurtado. His alleged accomplice, Marlon Abrego Rivas, also known as “Gato,” is currently a fugitive.
Solidarity, a key to security, eludes press
El Salvador’s new generation of journalists would do well to be proactive, to work together, and to speak as one on the issues that endanger them all, says CPJ.
News website threatened for its reporting
The editor of the news website El Faro says his staff members have been followed after the site reported on a criminal network involving politicians.
Death squads threaten Radio Victoria journalists
A letter received by the radio station said that the journalists had to leave the Cabañas community before 4 May or they would be killed.
Murder of camera operator brings IAPA condemnation, call for investigation
While the reason for Alfredo Hurtado’s death is unknown, Canal 33 said his murder could have been linked to his work for the “Teleprensa” programme, mostly covering the police beat.
RSF reacts to guilty verdict for filmmaker’s killers with mixture of relief and frustration
TEASER: “This verdict marks a victory in the fight against impunity but as an attempt to establish the truth [in the Christian Poveda case], it may have been too hasty,” said RSF.
ARTICLE 19 applauds adoption of Access to Public Information Law
President Mauricio Funes was urged to immediately sign and implement the legislation.
A year later, many arrests in journalist’s murder but facts still unclear
Christian Poveda was one of the few journalists to cover the country’s local gangs from the inside.
Three more suspects arrested in Christian Poveda murder investigation
The arrests of three members of the Mara 18 gang bring the total number of suspects detained to 28.
Renewed threats against staff and journalists of Radio Victoria
The threats, first reported on 23 July 2009, have resurfaced days after the recent killing of two environmentalists.