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Bolivia / El Salvador

Journalist found dead in Bolivia; cameraman gunned down in El Salvador

Two journalists were killed in two relatively safe countries in Latin America this past week. A journalist who went missing on 19 April in Bolivia was found dead two days later, report IFEX interim member Asociación Nacional de la Prensa (ANP) and other IFEX members, while a cameraman in El Salvador was gunned down near the capital on Monday, report the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Bolivia

Journalists protest against controversial anti-racism law

Bolivia's just-passed law against racism and discrimination has spawned a new outbreak of journalist protests, from public demos to hunger strikes. Bolivia's National Press Association (ANP), an IFEX interim member, argues that the law threatens press freedom and imposes censorship because it gives the government the power to shut down media outlets or throw journalists in jail simply for writing about racism.

Bolivia

Journalists attacked; media freedom deteriorates

Press freedom has deteriorated in Bolivia since President Evo Morales came to power in 2005; his insults against the media are often followed up with supporters assaulting journalists, alleges the International Press Institute (IPI). Morales's re-election on 6 December means opposition critics and journalists will continue to be under threat, reports IPI.

Bolivia

MANIFESTANTES DE LA OPOSICIÓN MALTRATAN A LA PRENSA

Bolivia

LES PROTESTATAIRES DE L'OPPOSITION S'EN PRENNENT À LA PRESSE

Bolivia

OPPOSITION PROTESTERS BATTER PRESS

A wave of violent clashes between opponents and supporters of the government in Bolivia has badly hit the press, particularly public and community media, report the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS), the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and other press freedom groups.

Bolivia

PERIODISTA RADIOFÓNICO MUERE TRAS ATAQUE A ESTACIÓN

Bolivia

UN JOURNALISTE MEURT APRÈS UN ATTENTAT CONTRE UNE STATION DE RADIO

Bolivia

RADIO JOURNALIST DIES AFTER ATTACK ON STATION

A journalist who got caught up in mob violence against a Bolivian radio station has died from his wounds, report the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and other press freedom groups.

Bolivia

LES MÉDIAS SONT MENACÉS TANDIS QU'ON TENTE UNE RÉFORME CONSTITUTIONNELLE

Bolivia

PRENSA BOLIVIANA ESTÁ LIBRE PERO OBSTACULIZADA POR CRÍTICAS DEL PRESIDENTE, ENCUENTRA EL CPJ

Bolivia

LA PRESSE BOLIVIENNE EST LIBRE MAIS ELLE EST ENTRAVÉE PAR LES CRITIQUES DU PRÉSIDENT, CONSTATE LE CPJ

Bolivia

BOLIVIAN PRESS IS FREE, BUT HAMPERED BY PRESIDENT’S CRITICISM, CPJ FINDS

Despite a relatively open press climate, Bolivian President Evo Morales is too "thin-skinned" and is making reporters' working conditions increasingly difficult, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found on a recent week-long mission to the country.

Bolivia

PERIODISMO EN CRISIS EN BOLIVIA, ENCUENTRA INFORME DE IMS

Bolivia

LE JOURNALISME TRAVERSE UNE CRISE EN BOLIVIE, CONCLUT UN RAPPORT DE L'IMS

Bolivia

JOURNALISM IN CRISIS IN BOLIVIA, IMS REPORT FINDS

Growing tensions among regional, ethnic and economic groups in Bolivia are being reflected in the media to the detriment of the country's unity, International Media Support (IMS) has found in a recent report.

Bolivia

SIP INSTA A INCLUIR GARANTÍAS PARA LIBERTAD DE PALABRA EN NUEVA CONSTITUCIÓN

Bolivia

LA SIP DEMANDE INSTAMMENT L'INCLUSION DANS LA NOUVELLE CONSTITUTION DE GARANTIES POUR PRÉSERVER LA LIBERTÉ DE PAROLE

Bolivia

IAPA URGES FREE SPEECH GUARANTEES IN NEW CONSTITUTION

As Bolivian lawmakers begin the process of drafting a new constitution for the country, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has joined the National Press Association (ANP) in calling for strong guarantees of protection for free expression and press freedom rights.

Bolivia

DIFUSORAS COMUNITARIAS OBTIENEN RECONOCIMIENTO LEGAL

Bolivia

LES RADIODIFFUSEURS COMMUNAUTAIRES OBTIENNENT LA RECONNAISSANCE JURIDIQUE

Bolivia

COMMUNITY BROADCASTERS WIN LEGAL RECOGNITION

In what is being hailed as a precedent setting move in Latin America, Bolivian president Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert has signed a decree on broadcasting that paves the way for legal recognition of community radio stations, reports the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).

Bolivia

AU MILIEU DE LA TOURMENTE POLITIQUE, DES JOURNALISTES SONT CIBLÉS

Bolivia

PERIODISTAS ATACADOS DURANTE AGITACIÓN POLÍTICA

Bolivia

JOURNALISTS TARGETED AMID POLITICAL UPHEAVAL

Numerous IFEX members have called attention to attacks and threats on journalists in Bolivia amid massive popular demonstrations that left more than 50 dead and led to the resignation last Friday of president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.

Bolivia

COCHE BOMBA MATA A PERIODISTA

Bolivia

L?EXPLOSION D?UNE VOITURE PIÉGÉE TUE UNE JOURNALISTE

Bolivia

CAR BOMB KILLS JOURNALIST

Employees of Bolivia's "El Diario" newspaper are in mourning following the murder of executive director Maria Teresa Guzmán in La Paz last week. On 10 April, Guzmán was driving home from work at 10:15 PM when a bomb exploded in the back of her vehicle, says the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). Her husband, "El Diario" General Director Jorge Carrasco Jahnsen, believes the bomb was meant for him instead in response to some investigations the newspaper was about to publish. Carrasco also says his wife's murder was part of a planned campaign against "El Diario," since the newspaper has endured 11 violent attacks in the last six months.

Bolivia

IAPA DELEGATION TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON BOLIVIA

Free expression and press freedom will be the focus of attention in Bolivia next week when a high-profile delegation arranged by Inter American Press Association (IAPA) travels to the South American country.

Bolivia

MIEMBROS DEL EJERCITO IMPLICADOS EN MUERTE DE PERIODISTA DE TELEVISIÓN

Bolivia

DANS LA MORT D?UN JOURNALISTE DE LA TÉLÉVISION

Bolivia

MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES IMPLICATED IN TV JOURNALIST'S DEATH

Juan Carlos Encinas, a reporter with the Bolivian television news programme "Enlance" on Canal 21, was killed on 29 July, according to Reporters sans frontières (RSF). The journalist was covering the conflict between two rival organisations for the control of a mining cooperative, la Cooperativa Multiactiva Catavi Ltda, in El Alto, 19 km from La Paz. Encinas was at the mine when one of the organisations surrounded the site and fired a number of shots. The journalist was wounded in the groin, but could not be evacuated since the attackers refused to allow those injured to leave. He died several hours later. RSF reports that two air force sergeants, Renato Limache Ticona and Humberto Quisbert Limache, are suspected of providing weapons to the attackers. Witnesses reportedly saw the two at the site of the incident. Limache Ticona is also suspected of having shot directly at the journalist.