AS/COA Online spoke to Carlos Lauría, the senior Americas program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists about press freedom in Venezuela, how media restrictions affect the presidential campaigns, and violence against journalists.
In Brasilia, Congress will decide on the “world’s first Internet bill of rights,” while in Lima, legislators could pass a bill restricting Internet freedoms.
The Andean country could leave the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights within a year, raising concerns due to the timing of the announcement a month before the presidential election.
Beginning August 2, justices will try 38 defendants accused of involvement in a massive congressional vote-buying scandal.
Over two years after disaster struck central Chile, government officials in power at the time are locked in a legal dispute over who is to blame for not issuing the proper warnings.
With May 3 marking World Press Freedom Day, recent legislation in Brazil and Mexico seeks to expand freedom of information, while new and proposed laws in Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru impose limits.
The use of state-run media outlets has skyrocketed in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. What are the implications for freedom of the press?
