Americas

Mexico City, November 11, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chilean authorities to stop the harassment and intimidation of journalists by politicians, who filed two separate criminal defamation cases against independent news outlets this week. “We are increasingly concerned about the misuse of lawsuits and judicial powers in Chile, particularly criminal defamation cases against…

Miami, November 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the reported arson attack on independent radio station Radio Émancipation, the fifth such attack on a station in the last six months, and calls on the Haitian government to establish conditions in the country that allow journalists, and citizens more broadly, to work safely without…

The Committee to Protect Journalists in a Friday letter called on U.S. Secretary of State Rubio to clarify recent decisions to revoke visas. Under the second Trump administration, the State Department has revoked visas for international journalists, as well as commentators and writers, in connection with their reporting or speech on foreign affairs. On October 26, British commentator Sami…

Mexico City, October 31, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to immediately, credibly, and transparently investigate the killing of journalist Miguel Ángel Beltrán, whose remains were found wrapped in a blanket in the northern state of Durango on the morning of October 25. Beltrán’s body was found in the town of Río…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and seven partner organizations that form the International Mission for Freedom of Expression and Press Freedom in Honduras warned of intensifying risks for Honduran journalists in a joint letter ahead of the country’s November 30 general elections, citing judicial harassment, surveillance, and widespread impunity threatening independent reporting and the public’s…

A barrage of bullets was waiting for ATB camera operator Percy Suárez and six other journalists when they arrived at the Las Londras ranch in Bolivia’s Guarayos province October 28, 2021, around 852 kilometers outside of the capital, La Paz. The journalists, flown in by a local farmer association, came to cover a land dispute…

New York, October 16, 2025—Ecuadorian authorities should comprehensively and swiftly investigate the shooting of TV journalist Edison Muenala and take decisive actions to ensure that press members can safely report on ongoing anti-government demonstrations, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Tuesday, Muenala, a journalist and producer with the community station APAK TV, was shot…

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Pentagon to reconsider new restrictions on journalists covering the Department of War in a letter sent Friday to the United States Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs. The Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs announced new policies and…

Washington, D.C., October 3, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed after a six-person jury on Thursday convicted Ohio journalist Lucas Griffith of failure to disperse while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, and imposed a $50 fine. “It is outrageous that journalists in the United States have faced trial in…

Update: Mario Guevara was deported from the United States on a 4 a.m. flight on October 3, 2025. Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025—In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press issued the following…