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Alerts - 2012 - Central America

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Honduras

Journalist found dead a week after being kidnapped

News of Alfredo Villatoro's murder spread quickly through the national media and dozens of journalists showed up at the morgue in a show of solidarity for their colleague, condemning his murder.

Guatemala

Community radio stations raided, journalist arrested

Representatives of the Attorney General's office and National Civil Police officers raided community radio stations Uqul Tinamit and Jun Toj, taking their equipment and arresting one journalist.

Honduras

IAPA urges government to act speedily on abduction of journalist

Alfredo Villatoro, with the Tegucigalpa radio station HRN, was driving at 4:45 a.m. on his way to the station, where he is in charge of the newscast “Diario Matutino” (Morning News), when he was intercepted and kidnapped by at least six assailants who were riding in two pickup trucks; he had reported receiving death threats.

Guatemala

Six TV stations closed due to political pressure

Journalists in Mazatenango, Suchitépequez have denounced the closing of six local TV stations, a decision that was taken after the local mayor put pressure on the Cable DX company, saying he would not tolerate criticism of his administration.

Honduras

Journalist, human rights defender killed

Three weeks ago Erick Martínez Ávila had announced his candidacy for deputy of Francisco Morazán department in the Libre party, which is a political wing of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) that was created after the 2009 coup d'état.

Honduras

TV programme director gets hundreds of threatening text messages

According to journalist Edgardo Castro, the discussion of social issues such as speaking in favour of peasants, minimum salaries and in defense of workers, and against crime, is what makes the oligarchy threaten journalists.

Honduras

Shots fired at journalist's home

As Selvin Martínez was returning from a work trip to San Pedro Sula, he saw people in a red car firing towards his home.

Honduras

TV journalist survives assassination attempt

Elder Joel Aguilar, a correspondent for Canal 6, had recently reported on an armed gang holdup of four trucks carrying shipments of coffee.

Honduras

Journalist and human rights defender threatened with sexual violence

Dina Meza Elvir, a journalist and human rights defender with the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras, has receiving threatening telephone calls and text messages.

Honduras

TV show host shot dead

According to reports by Maya TV, journalist Noel Valladares had received death threats and had been subjected to attempted extortion.

Honduras

Radio journalist assaulted, gets death threat from Liberal Party leaders

Radio Globo journalist Rony Espinoza reported that he was attacked and threatened with death by Liberal Party leaders accompanying Monsignor Luis Alfonso Santos to a political event.

El Salvador

News website threatened for its reporting

The editor of the news website El Faro says his staff members have been followed after the site reported on a criminal network involving politicians.

Honduras

Journalist receives death threat in Choloma

On the day he received the threats, Alex Roberto Sabillón Gómez had reported on increases in water rates and human rights violations against street vendors and market tenants.

Honduras

Radio journalist killed in Saba

Journalist Fausto Elio Hernández had reported on the municipal administration, the National Registry, farming conflicts in the Bajo Aguan region, and had recently covered the fire at the Comayagua prison that killed 361 prisoners.

Honduras

Radio journalist receives death threat

On the day she was threatened, Mavis Ethel Cruz had discussed on her show a fire in the federal revenue archives, where a list of delinquent accounts had been kept.

Honduras

Journalists receive death threats after reporting on prison fire

"They want to silence us because we have recordings that show what really happened during the fire," said Juan Ramón Flores, owner of Catedral TV.

Honduras

C-Libre vice-president receives death threats

Journalist Danilo Osmaro Castellanos received threats to his life and that of his family, after criticising the management of a high-level municipal official in Copán.

Honduras

Another member of journalists' collective receives death threats

Gilda Silvestrucci, host of the "En la Plaza" programme on Radio Globo, was followed and received threatening phone calls.

Honduras

Peasants' rights activist assassinated in Colón

The director of the Vía Campesina organisation says Matías Valle's murder was an attack on freedom of expression.

Honduras

Lawyer shot to death after reporting on human rights violations

Rosales was killed three days after he reported to "Diario Tiempo" that police officers had assaulted and sexually harassed a group of youths.

Honduras

Journalist who had participated in protest receives death threats

Itsmania Pineda Plateros is a member of a women journalists' collective and in December participated in a protest in front of the Presidential Palace that was suppressed by members of the presidential guard.