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Rio de Janeiro Military Police publish video criticizing, insulting journalist Rafael Soares

December 9, 2020 4:12 PM EST

In the evening of December 8, 2020, the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro published a video on its website and official YouTube and Twitter accounts in response to an article that Rafael Soares, a security reporter for national newspapers O Globo and Extra, had published previously that day. Soares’ article concerned a Military Police…

Newspaper supplement alleging corruption confiscated

September 30, 2016 3:10 PM EDT

A group of unidentified men on September 27 confiscated a special supplement of one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest tabloids, Extra, that reported on a corruption investigation into a candidate in municipal elections, the newspaper reported.

Photographer gunned down in Ecuador

July 3, 2012 3:47 PM EDT

Bogotá, Colombia, July 3, 2012–Ecuadoran photographer Byron Baldeón was shot dead Sunday in front of his home in El Triunfo, about 60 kilometers (100 miles) north of the city of Guayaquil. The photographer had become a witness in a criminal case involving alleged police corruption, according to news reports.