Attacks on the Press in 2011: Americas

Shazdeh Omari

Analyses and data chart press freedom conditions throughout the region. Carlos Lauría describes the rise of state media as a powerful propaganda tool. Mike O’Connor exposes Mexico’s failed efforts to combat deadly violence against the press.

Americas

This video recounts the story of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, who works in one of the world’s most dangerous places. [View a larger version of the video here.]

Analysis

Awardees Work Despite Perils
By Kristin Jones

How does one negotiate the choice to stay and report potentially dangerous news, rather than take a less risky assignment, leave the profession, or flee the country? The recipients of the 2011 International Press Freedom Awards explain.
 
Analysis

State Media as Anti-Media Tool
By Carlos Lauría

In some Latin American countries, state-owned media are used not only for propaganda but as platforms to smear critics, including journalists. Leaders are building multimedia networks to further their agendas.
Analysis

Calderón Fails, and Press Is Dying
By Mike O’Connor

The president promised to defend journalists with a federal protection program, a special prosecutor, and new legislation making anti-press violence a federal crime. He has failed at nearly every turn.
Analysis

In Security Field, Risks Multiply
By Frank Smyth

Coverage of street protests grows ever risky. The journalist security field also confronts sexual violence, organized crime, and digital vulnerability.

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Imprisoned by Year

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2011

2008

Regional Data

8

Journalists Killed in 2011

84

Journalists In Exile 2001-11


140

Journalists Killed Since 1992

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Imprisoned on December 1, 2011


94

Unsolved Journalist Murders Since 1992

11

Missing as of December 31, 2011


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Argentina

7 Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously that state advertising must be equitably distributed.

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Brazil

224 Takedown demands made to Google by authorities, the most in the world.
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Colombia

5th Impunity Index ranking, reflecting a high rate of unsolved journalist murders.
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Cuba

18 Journalists forced into exile in 2010-11, the highest tally in the world.
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Ecuador

17 State-run news media, constituting one of the region’s largest government networks.
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Guatemala

3 Members of the Zetas arrested for hanging public banners threatening journalists.
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Honduras

7 Attacks by police on journalists covering a tumultuous teacher strike.
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Mexico

3 Journalists killed in direct relation to their work. Another four were slain in unclear circumstances.
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Peru

4 Reporters, editors convicted of criminal defamation. One was jailed for 193 days.
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United States

20 Journalists arrested or assaulted while covering Occupy demonstrations.
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Venezuela

82 Days that a publisher was imprisoned for a piece satirizing the administration.

Country reports in this chapter were researched and written by CPJ Research Associate Sara Rafsky, with reporting by Senior Program Coordinator Carlos Lauría.

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Shazdeh Omari is CPJ’s news editor. Former copy chief for The Village Voice, she has worked as a reporter and editor in the United States and Greece. Omari was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she learned to read, speak, and write Urdu.
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