Articles by Inter American Press Association
Reporting on FIFA scandal costs newspaper official advertising contract
The decision was in retaliation for an editorial that criticized the Premier of the Cayman Islands and local officials for allegedly engaging in acts of corruption, including one related to the FIFA soccer scandal.
Second journalist killed in less than a week in Brazil
According to reports by the local press, journalist Djalma Santos da Conceição had been receiving threats. Recently he carried out an investigation into the murder of a local teenager by drug traffickers.
Venezuelan judge stops media owners from leaving country
A court order in Venezuela prevents 22 executives and representatives of news media, who are involved in a lawsuit filed by National Assembly President, from leaving the country.
Venezuelan media outlets charged for republishing information from a Spanish paper
“We condemn the fact that in Venezuela the government always describes as media campaigns and conspiracies any information that can be critical or that points out wrongdoing,” said the Inter American Press Association.
Renewed action in case of 1988 murder of Mexican journalist
The Héctor Félix Miranda case is one of the emblematic investigations which the IAPA submitted in 1997 to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Imprisoned Cuban journalist granted home visits, but still fights for full freedom
About the relaxing of his prison conditions, journalist José Antonio Torres said, “This is not what I was pursuing. My goal is freedom. I am not, and have never been, a spy.”
Leaders in Baja California, Mexico boycott papers after claiming to be victims of defamation
The Governor of Baja California and the mayors of five cities in the state published an announcement in Mexican newspapers, claiming to be victims of blackmail and of defamatory reports by the Grupo Healy newspapers.
President’s chief of staff discredits media outlet as political opponent in Argentina
During a press conference in which he complained of a “political confrontation” by “opposition media”, Chief of Staff Jorge Capitanich tore up two pages of Clarín, which on Sunday had published articles about the death of public prosecutor Alberto Nisman.