Inter American Press Association

(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 […]

The Colombian government has instituted an official censorship decree aimed at television news programs in the country. The National Television Committee (CNT) ordered the programs to abstain from transmitting non-official information that “aggravates public order.” The CNT took this step on 23 August 1996 in response to news programs which aired coverage of clashes between […]

IAPA urged the Mexican government to suspend a 150 percent rise in import duties on newsprint. The import duties on newsprint were raised from 6 to 15 percent, according to reports that appeared in the official Mexican government publication on 26 June 1996, the date on which the executive decree took effect. IAPA called the […]