Inter American Press Association

(IAPA/IFEX) – On 22 July 1998, IAPA, through its Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, protested the ouster of foreign news correspondents from the Cuban national legislature and called on President Fidel Castro to show respect for journalists in carrying out their work. Castro had expelled journalists representing international news media from the […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – An international delegation from the Inter American Press Association will meet in San José, Costa Rica on 25 June 1998 with representatives of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights to discuss the possibilities of incorporating the Declaration of Chapultepec into a hemisphere convention to guarantee freedom of the press, free speech and people’s […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – This week, Cuban authorities refused to grant journalist Raul Rivera, who is vice-president of IAPA’s Cuba branch, permission to leave Cuba temporarily. Rivera, who is also current president of the Cuba Press news agency and a recognized poet, had received an invitation to travel to Spain, but immigration authorities refused to authorise permission […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – On 11 June 1998, the Legislative Assembly’s Special Permanent Commission on Drugtrafficking ordered the director of “La Nacion”, Eduardo Ulibarri, and journalists Berlioth Herrera and Giannina Segnini to appear before it in order to answer questions about a report that appeared in the daily’s 1 June edition. The Commission also requested the recordings […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has welcomed a resolution adopted by the Organization of American States at its general assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, on 2 June 1998, in which the nations of the Western Hemisphere agreed “to strongly repudiate attacks on the practice of freedom of the press and crimes against journalists.” […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – On 23 January 1998 the Inter American Press Association’s (IAPA) Executive Committee expressed outrage at the murder of eight journalists in the past three months, three of them in Brazil, three others in Colombia and one each in Guatemala and Mexico. It called on the governments of those countries to do everything in […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – On 20 November 1997, Jairo Elias Marquez, 40, director of the magazine “El Marquez”, was killed in the city of Armenia, 190 kilometres west of Bogota, as he was getting into his car. Marquez had received repeated threats on his life. According to IAPA, Marquez is the seventh journalist killed this year in […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The dismembered body of Alejandro Jaramillo, 67, was discovered in Pasto, a town in southeastern Colombia, on 1 November 1997. Jaramillo had joined the staff of “Diario del Sur” in Pasto two months ago and reported on crime and judicial issues. He had previously worked for the newspapers “El Pais”, “El Caleno” and […]