María de los Ángeles González Hernández, a columnist for the newspaper Política, reported that she and her family received death threats from union leaders in Xalapa, Veracruz in retaliation for unflattering coverage, the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) reports. read more »

Wellington Raulino, owner of TV Integração, was beaten by four men while crossing the Parnaíba River on a boat towards the northern city of Benedito Leite, Maranhão, where his station operates, read more »

Elena Rodríguez, a correspondent in Ecuador for the Telesur TV network, said she received a written threat on her car windshield the day after being robbed, beaten and kicked while in her car north of Quito, CRE Satelital and EFE report. She said the attack was aimed at her network, not at her. See more information in Spanish. read more »

Journalists who cover the environment are “on the front line of a new war” waged by organised crime groups and even governments that profit from misuse of the environment, Reporters Without Borders says. read more »

Journalist Lydia Cacho, who exposed a child pornography network that involved business leaders, has reported receiving new death threats last week. read more »

According to a complaint by the Andean media watchdog group Fundamedios, Carlos Proaño, journalist and anchor of the program Notivisión on Radio Visión in Quito, received a unidentified phone call warning him to be careful. “We know that you have the documents. If you open your mouth, we don't know what could happen." read more »

Carlos Baía, director of the Journalism Department at Radio Metropolitana in the city of Barcarena (in the northern state of Pará), has received death threats after denouncing local government irregularities, the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) reports via IFEX. read more »

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) urged officials to promptly investigate acts of violence and intimidation reported in recent days. read more »

The Public Attorney for the Defense of Human Rights in El Salvador has asked for protective measures for three radio journalists who have received death threats, ANSA reports. read more »

Luis Fernando Gil, director of the news show Hora 13, broadcast on a local TV station in the western city of Cartago, has been received constant threats since February, the Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP) reports via IFEX. read more »

Mexico City's Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International (AI) have urged federal authorities to guarantee the security and safety of Lydia Cacho and to conduct an exhaustive investigation of her most recent threats, EFE and read more »

Deputy Attorney General Guillermo Mendoza asked Colombian judges to impose more severe sentences for killings and attacks of journalists, the Associated Press (AP) reports. read more »

The Dominican Senate said it will investigate allegations by three local journalists who claim they were intimidated by a senator who they reported was under investigation for health insurance fraud in the United States, EFE reports. read more »

After four months in captivity, Mario Alfonso Puello was released last June by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN). He says he recently learned from an anonymous caller that two men on a motorcycle planned to kill him to "complete a mission," El Tiempo reports. read more »

Four hostages released this weekend by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said the leftist guerrilla group believes the media is biased against them, María Salazar reports for the Committee to Protect Journalists. read more »

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has published an announcement in more than 350 newspapers in the hemisphere, reporting on aggressions against the press in 2008, which include 13 journalists assassinated in Latin America during the year.

Mexico appears once again as the country with the most attacks on journalists read more »

Jazmín Romero, of the newspaper Vanguardia Liberal, and Mario Ruiz, of the local television station Pase TV, both of Socorro, Santander, in northeastern Colombia, received the threats recently by phone, the Foundation For Press Freedom (FLIP) reported. (See FLIP's website here.) read more »

Even though fears about safety have driven Mexican newspaperman Alejandro Junco de la Vega to move with his family to the United States, the president of Grupo Reforma says he believes in the power of truth to bring change. read more »

The Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) reports that several journalists in the southwestern city are living in fear as the result of several intimidating phone calls received by colleagues in recent weeks, El Tiempo reports. read more »

Alejandro Junco de la Vega, president of Grupo Reforma, one of Mexico's most influential newspaper chains, has moved with his family to Austin, Texas, over fears about his safety, the San Antonio Express-News and La Crónica de Hoy reported. read more »