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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:50:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Juzgado impide viaje de periodista a Brasil]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/02/07/lopez_demanda/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Dirigente campesino denuncia atentado en su contra]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/31/alvarez_threats/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/31/alvarez_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Another member of journalists' collective receives death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/24/silvestrucci_death_threat/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Gilda Silvestrucci, host of the "En la Plaza" programme on Radio Globo, was followed and received threatening phone calls.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/24/silvestrucci_death_threat/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Peasants' rights activist assassinated in Colón]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/23/valle_assassinated/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The director of the Vía Campesina organisation says Matías Valle's murder was an attack on freedom of expression.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/23/valle_assassinated/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Lawyer shot to death after reporting on human rights violations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/19/rosales_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Rosales was killed three days after he reported to "Diario Tiempo" that police officers had assaulted and sexually harassed a group of youths.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/19/rosales_killed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Journalist who had participated in protest receives death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/11/platero_death_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/11/platero_death_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Instituciones del estado restringen los derechos a la libertad de expresión y acceso a la información]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/11/conadeh_restringe_derechos/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2012/01/11/conadeh_restringe_derechos/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Journalist assaulted by National Police officers]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/28/espinoza_police_assault/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In his journalism work, Leonel Espinoza has been focusing on topics such as cleansing within the National Police ranks and impunity in cases of murdered journalists.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/28/espinoza_police_assault/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Police officer issues death threat against camera operator]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/28/rodriguez_death_threat/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Uriel Gudiel Rodríguez said the threat is related to footage that several media outlets have aired of the main suspect in a murder case.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/28/rodriguez_death_threat/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Soldiers assault protesters calling for justice for slain journalists]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/21/journalist_protest_repressed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A group of mostly women journalists calling for justice for slain reporters were violently suppressed by police with batons and tear gas in Honduras's capital last week, reports IFEX's member in Honduras the Comité por la Libre Expresión (C-Libre), as well as Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Two members of C-Libre, Tirzia Gáleas y Cesar Villeda, who were at the demonstration as observers, were also assaulted.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/21/journalist_protest_repressed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Honduras must investigate attacks on the press, says CPJ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/20/investigate_attacks/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In an open letter to President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, CPJ expresses its concern about the unrelenting violence against the local press. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/20/investigate_attacks/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Members of presidential guard, police suppress journalists' protest; two members of C-Libre assaulted]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/16/defensores_agredidos/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[More than 50 journalists, most of them women, held a peaceful protest calling for justice in the cases of 24 journalists who have been assassinated since 2003 and the ongoing attacks on free expression.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/16/defensores_agredidos/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Security analyst who spoke out against organised crime assassinated]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/14/landaverde_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Making full use of his right to freedom of expression, Alfredo Landaverde took on the topics of drug trafficking, organised crime and police corruption.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/14/landaverde_killed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Radio journalist gunned down in Tegucigalpa]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/08/paz_villalobos_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA["We are deeply troubled by the murder of journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos. Honduran journalists continue to be killed with impunity, and the government's failure to guarantee minimal safety is fostering a climate of lawlessness that is seriously restricting the work of the press," said CPJ.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/08/paz_villalobos_killed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Armed men fire shots at daily's offices]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/05/la_tribuna_attack/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The editor-in-chief of "La Tribuna" believes the attack is linked to reports the daily has published on the assassination of two university students. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/12/05/la_tribuna_attack/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - IAPA condemns threats, intimidation launched against media]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/29/journalists_harassed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[IAPA has added its support to a request by the National Human Rights Commissioner that the government investigate complaints of threats so as to ensure the safety of journalists and guarantee freedom of the press.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/29/journalists_harassed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Panama - Radio commentator who spoke out against corruption assassinated in Coclé ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/panama/2011/11/21/fernandez_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Darío Fernández Jaén, a former governor of the province of Coclé, had reported on alleged land title irregularities via a programme on his radio station, Radio Mi Favorita.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/panama/2011/11/21/fernandez_killed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Two journalists receive death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/14/aguilar_and_galdamez_death_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Unidentified callers threatened to kill Arnulfo Aguilar and Luis Galdamez even though both journalists have been granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/14/aguilar_and_galdamez_death_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Guatemala - Journalists assaulted, face restrictions while covering second electoral round]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/11/09/cordero_herido/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Héctor Cordero, a correspondent for Guatevisión, was assaulted by a politician's bodyguard and will have to remain in hospital for 10 days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/11/09/cordero_herido/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Journalists fired from online magazine Revistazo.com]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/09/periodistas_despedidas/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Eleana Borjas and Claudia Mendoza say they were dismissed because they disagreed with the magazine's new editorial mandate. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/09/periodistas_despedidas/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Lead suspect in journalist's killing cleared]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/03/alvarez_acquitted/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Marco Joel Álvarez Barahona is the second person to be quickly absolved of David Meza Montesinos's murder after a single hearing, without any proper examination of evidence.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/03/alvarez_acquitted/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Unknown assailants shoot journalist ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/01/andino_shot/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Reporter Edy Andino was shot in the leg while he was on his way home from work in San Pedro Sula. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/11/01/andino_shot/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Guatemala - Members of local security committee threaten journalist]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/10/31/escobar_death_threat/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Lucía Escobar says she was threatened after publishing an article about the forced disappearance of a person in the town of Panajachel, in western Guatemala.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/10/31/escobar_death_threat/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Armed men threaten journalist, steal his laptop]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/26/escoto_amador_asalto/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Two heavily armed men stopped Edgardo Antonio Escoto Amador in the early morning hours, threatened him and stole his bag, which contained important information of national interest. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/26/escoto_amador_asalto/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nicaragua - Journalist flees country after death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/nicaragua/2011/09/22/journalist_flees/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Soon after the publication of a series of articles on a former guerrilla member, Silvia González began receiving anonymous threatening phone calls.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/nicaragua/2011/09/22/journalist_flees/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Journalist receives death threats ]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/15/castro_rodriguez_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mario Castro Rodriguez has also been followed several times by heavily armed men who cover their faces with balaclavas and drive a white car with tinted windows and no licence plates.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/15/castro_rodriguez_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brazil - With three new deaths, Latin America is most dangerous region for journalists, say IFEX members]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/brazil/2011/09/14/most_dangerous_region/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Three journalists have been killed in the space of a week in Brazil, Honduras and Peru, cementing Latin America's status as the most dangerous region for journalists in 2011 so far, report IFEX members.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/brazil/2011/09/14/most_dangerous_region/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Pro-Zelaya journalist killed in Bijao]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/12/flores_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Medardo Flores was part of a Radio UNO collective, which analysed current sociopolitical and cultural issues in Honduras.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/09/12/flores_killed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Assassinated journalist's brother receives death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/08/22/brother_threatened/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Carlos Alberto Medina Polanco has been told to stop calling for an investigation into the murder of his brother, or he will "meet the same fate". ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/08/22/brother_threatened/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nicaragua - Reporter and her family receive death threats in polarised pre-election climate]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/nicaragua/2011/08/15/gonzalez_amenazas/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Silvia González believes the threats are linked to articles about the activities of a former "Contra" commander who opposed the government of Daniel Ortega.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/nicaragua/2011/08/15/gonzalez_amenazas/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Guatemala - Journalists threatened by mayor of Mazatenango after reporting on corruption]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/08/10/mazatenango_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Danilo López said the harassment began after he published a story detailing complaints accusing the mayor and his son of selling permits to illegal taxi operators.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/guatemala/2011/08/10/mazatenango_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Radio Progreso correspondent receives death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/28/garcia_death_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Roberto García Fúnez has been reporting on the construction of hydroelectric dams which are being built without the consent of the local community.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/28/garcia_death_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Canal 36 television station journalists receive death threats]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/21/suazo_death_threats/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[According to the newspaper "El Libertador", journalists Esdras Amado López and Mario Rolando Suazo received death threats after reporting on a potential scandal within the Catholic Church.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/21/suazo_death_threats/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Journalist dismissed after investigating irregularities in social security institute tender process]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/20/fajardo_dismissed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Lenis Fajardo was dismissed from her position at the Radio Globo radio station based on instructions given by the station's owner. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/20/fajardo_dismissed/</guid>
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      <title><![CDATA[Honduras - Young radio station manager killed before community radio meeting]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/20/orellana_killed/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Twenty-six-year-old radio manager Nery Jeremias Orellana was riding a motorcycle to work on 14 July in Candelaria, Lempira, near Honduras's border with El Salvador, when he was gunned down by unidentified assailants, report the Committee for Free Expression (C-Libre) and other IFEX members. According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the International Press Institute (IPI), he is the third journalist killed possibly as a result of his profession this year in Honduras.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.ifex.org/honduras/2011/07/20/orellana_killed/</guid>
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