The judge hearing the assassination case of José Everardo Aguilar acquitted the sole defendant after rejecting the evidence presented by prosecutors, including testimony by the journalist's daughter, El Tiempo reports. read more »

The assassination of police reporter Bladimir Antuna in Durango has once again exposed the helplessness of media workers in Mexico. The situation makes the country one of the world's most riskiest in which to practice journalism. read more »

Ten hours after Bladimir Antuna, crime reporter for El Tiempo newspaper, was kidnapped while driving to work, his body was found outside a hospital in Durango City, Durango, the AFP news agency and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report. read more »

The prosecutor didn't arrive in court on time on the eighth and final day of the trial in Lima of Luis Valdez, former mayor of Pucallpa, who is accused of killing reporter Alberto Rivera in 2004. After 15 minutes he was declared absent, and the president of the court annulled the lawsuit, La República reports. read more »

Fabián Ramírez López was found with stab wounds in the chest in a vacant lot in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, El Porvenir reports. He had been missing since last Friday and was found late Sunday.

Ramírez, 42, worked for La Magia 97.1, a local station of the Mega Radio group. read more »

Norberto Miranda Madrid, a radio host and Web columnist who harshly criticized local crime, was killed Wednesday night in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, in the newsroom of the radio station where he worked, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports. read more »

Reporter and cameraman Diego Rojas Velásquez was shot four times in the city of Caramanta (northwest of Bogotá in Antioquia department) where he went to cover an unspecified story, La Patria reports. He is the fifth journalist killed in the country this year, the Colombian Federation of Journalists explains. read more »

Six men face homicide charges for last week’s shooting death of French documentary maker Christian Poveda, CNN reports. Poveda had spent years documenting the gang for the film “La Vida Loca” (The Crazy Life). See the trailer, and the documentary's site (French and English). read more »

Christian Poveda, who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang, was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, CNN and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) report. read more »

The assassins of Mexican journalists are determined that their crimes will never be punished. To ensure this, they are killing more people who are investigating their acts. read more »

Dalvison Nogueira de Souza was driving his car in Recife, Pernambuco (northeast) when two men on a motorcycle shot him, causing him to lose control and crash, Jornal do Commercio reports. Souza, who covered sports and police news for several radio stations, died at the scene, and the killers fled. read more »

Eugenio Hernández, the ex-mayor of El Ayote, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2004 murder of María José Bravo of La Prensa newspaper. He could go free due to errors by the Justice Department in investigating the case, EFE reports. read more »

Ernesto Montañez Valdivia, editor of "Enfoque de El Sol de Chihuahua" (Focus on the Sun of Chihuahua) was shot to death Tuesday in Ciudad Juárez while driving in his vehicle with his 17-year-old son, who was seriously wounded, El Financiero reports. read more »

Police believe Arley Manquillo Rivera is responsible for killing José Everardo Aguilar a veteran broadcaster who was gunned down in his home last April in Cauca province (southwest Colombia), the Committee to Protect Journalists and Colombia’s Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) report. read more »

Bernardo Rivera, a journalist and former member of Congress, was kidnapped March 14 and apparently killed by his captors, EFE reports, citing a police spokesman. read more »

Radio broadcaster Gabriel Fino Noriega was shot three times by an unidentified, man, allegedly over “personal animosity,” EFE reports. read more »

Last month's killing of Mexican reporter Eliseo Barrón was intended to scare local journalists against interfering with the work of drug traffickers, El Universal and EFE report. read more »

An opposition senator has accused Colombia's DAS security service of instructing its employees since 2004 to monitor and sabotage the work of several recognized human rights activists, including journalists
Hollman Morris and Claudia Duque, the El Tiempo newspaper reports. read more »

Hernando Salas Rojas, director of the local cable TV channel and a community leader in Curillo, Caquetá, was killed by two assassins who fled on a motorcycle, the Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER), reports. read more »

Marco Antonio Estrada, a reporter for the TeleDiario news program of Channel 3 TV, was gunned down in the city of Chiquimula, the Prensa Libre newspaper reports. read more »