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The newsroom of Venezuelan daily El Nacional in October 2018, shortly before it stopped its paper edition

World

Aid freeze silences Latin America media scrutiny of US foes

A choke on US aid threatens to smother media exposing abuses in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, to the unconcealed delight of the very leaders...

AFPMarch 21, 2025

Carlos Correa, directeur d'une ONG réputée de défense des droits humains et de la liberté d'expression au Venezuela, photo non datée diffusée le 8 janvier 2025 par son ONG, Espacio Publico

World

Venezuela releases detained free-speech advocate

The head of a leading Venezuelan human rights group was released from detention Thursday, his NGO said, after nine days in custody following a...

AFPJanuary 16, 2025

Journalist Jose Ruben Zamora speaks during an interview with AFP at his home in Guatemala City

World

Journalist says his detention removed Guatemala’s ‘mask of democracy’

A prominent Guatemalan journalist and corruption critic, declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, says that his time in prison allowed him to...

AFPNovember 13, 2024

Jose Ruben Zamora has been imprisoned in a military barracks in Guatemala's capital since July 29, 2022

World

Guatemala journalist’s jail conditions akin to ‘torture’: UN experts

A group of UN experts said Wednesday that a prominent Guatemalan journalist who has been in prison for more than two years was being...

AFPAugust 28, 2024

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will host counterparts from around the region in a summit on immigration Sunday

World

Mexico president defends revealing reporter’s phone number

Lopez Obrador denied that he had breached data protection regulations.

AFPFebruary 23, 2024

Millions of tourists visit the Mexican resort town of Cancun every year

World

Investigation of top Mexican resort town wins reporting prize

An investigation about the hidden side of the Caribbean resort town of Cancun on Wednesday won a prize honoring two journalists murdered in Mexico,...

AFPMay 3, 2023

The offices of Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, a fierce critic of President Daniel Ortega, have been taken over by the state with the management forced into exile

World

Independent journalism under attack in Central America

Central American journalists can pay a steep price for publishing unflattering stories about governments in the region.

AFPSeptember 1, 2022

Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora (C), president of the newspaper El Periodico, speaks to his lawyer (L) and his son Jose Zamora, during a break in his hearing at the Justice Palace in Guatemala City, on August 8, 2022

World

Guatemalan journalist critical of president charged with four felonies

Guatemalan prosecutors on Monday charged journalist Jose Ruben Zamora with crimes including money laundering and blackmail. Zamora was arrested last week and the offices...

AFPAugust 8, 2022