CPJ Americas Program

Exiled Nicaraguans hold photographs of missing and imprisoned relatives during a Mass in their honor, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz)

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders

An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for…

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Mexican authorities defend Will case conclusions

Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists has responded to CPJ’s October 24 letter expressing concerns about the investigation into the murder of U.S. filmmaker Bradley Will. The prosecutor’s response leaves much unresolved.

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