State search for hostility Self -esteem, stigmatization and aggression of organized crime are the main threats for freedom of the press American continent, said on Friday the journalism of Latin America and the United States on the second day of the middle of the meeting Internectional press -EVERATION (SIP).
However, they are not the only intimidation that journalists face. In conversations in which recognized informants participated in Julie Pace, Executive editor Associated Press (AP), And Marta Ramoseditorial director Mexican editorial organization (OEM), Stygmatization, which suffered from the press, was convicted that she allowed attacks and contributes to the daughter of the public, not knowing the biased news.
The judicial systems, as they said, became Censorship of the toolOn the one hand, and on the other, they are not ready and not interested in the investigation and punishment of true guilty Attacks and murders against journalists.
“The censorship of the press applies to the whole society,” said Pace, speaking of the current trend, emphasizing the case of the expulsion of journalists from the White House AP after he decided to preserve the term “Gulf of Mexico” in his journalistic offices.
“We represent people, and we are obliged to help them connect what is happening to the press, in this case AP, with censorship to everyone,” Pace said.
Armando Gonzalez, General manager La Nación Group in Costa -Rika and Fabricio Altamirano, General Director of Salvadoran Journalistic Group Interactive AmericaThey warned that the “stigmatization of the media” is part of the strategy of populist and authoritarian governments to weaken the freedom of the press.
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Thus, people say that “you cannot believe in the media,” and this autumn is in trust in the product of an obvious strategy, he condemned Jorge Karrasko, President of the Association of Journalists Bolivia
Growing violence against journalists
“The placement of the press is present in every corner of the continent,” SIP said.
In this sense, Pace noted that informants are registering more digital aggression, “Especially our journalists who are women or minorities.” He also talked about Physical aggression prevents the observance of functions.
As evidence of the darkest side of this practice, SIP made the death of 10 journalists in Latin America since October 2024: one in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru; Two in Haiti and four in Mexico.
Ramos from OEM emphasized the merger of an increase in the force of organized crime with “a The judicial system This has neither tools nor interest to find out who is behind the murders. “
The situation is aggravated in the most vulnerable areas: “Where there is no formal environment or journalists, they should have two or more jobs and ultimately killed when they are in this other work, which is not journalism,” added a Mexican journalist.
A similar situation is presented Andrés Mompotes, Director of the newspaper El Tiempo From Colombia and Gabriela Vivanko, Director of Diario La Hora in Ecuador, Those who condemned as impunity in crimes against journalists are another way of silence of the press.
Media owners also condemned Financial intimidation They indicated that this is carried out through court requirements, reducing recommendations for advertising and significant state expenses in the media corresponding to the official message.
In Panama, as in other countries, there is a “Dammol -method about the press that comes from judicial requirements. This creates self -esteem, ”said Rita Vasquez, director of the newspaper La Prensa.
In this sense, journalists Juan Lorenzo Holmann and Miguel Enrique OtherOwners of censorship media in Nicaragua and Venezuela, respectively, warned of the damage of authoritarian governments for freedom of the press.
With information EFE.