Christophe Deloire Reporters Without Borders secretary-general 47 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris Paris, 9 July 2014 Interior Minister Arturo Corrales Secretaría de Estado en el Despacho de Seguridad Aldea el Ocotal, Antiguo local de la Academía Nacional de Policía Tegucigalpa, Honduras Dear Minister, I would like to draw your attention to the repeated acts of intimidation to which our Honduras correspondent, , has been subjected. Reporters Without Borders is an...

Mexican telecoms reforms are forcing the break-up of billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil empire, Latin America's biggest telecoms company. Mr Slim, one of the world's richest men, says he will bring America Movil's market share below 50%. Its Telmex fixed line subsidiary has 80% of the Mexican market and its mobile Telcel operation 70%. The reforms would make America Movil in its present form a dominant player, subject to strict new rules. They would include being forced to share...

Reporters Without Borders calls for more protection for the staff of Contralínea, a Mexico City-based independent magazine whose offices were broken into and ransacked on the night of 23 June, two months after a break-in at the home if its editor, Miguel Badillo. Before removing computer equipment and files from Contralínea’s offices, the unidentified burglars cut the cables of the surveillance cameras that the Mexico City prosecutor’s office installed in 2012 under...

The senate has just approved the “ ” that President Enrique Peña Nieto’s government proposed on 24 March. Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the speed with which the bill is being adopted because some of its articles threaten freedom of information. The bill provides for content surveillance, the right to block telecommunication services, prior censorship of news and information that could endanger national security, and an unequal distribution of licences...

Ecuador’s National Assembly passed a sweeping Organic Law on Communication. One year later, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) is deeply concerned about the state of information freedom in the country. Initially, the law was seen as a means of . The law establishes a new regulatory framework. In addition, the statute attempts to define the craft of providing news. Our organization opposes that effort. The law does include several . But the government has not provided specific ways to...

In Mexico, where 32 journalists have been murdered in the last four years and hundreds more live under death threats, the real news would have been if Jorge Torres Palacios had turned up alive. But this was not the case. Torres Palacios, a reporter and government worker for the city of Acapulco, was found dead on Monday after being kidnapped outside his home on Thursday evening. His body was decapitated and dismembered and showed other signs of extreme violence, the local media...

The Cuban government has blocked an online newspaper launched by well-known dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, hours after it went live. Web users in Cuba are being diverted to another website, which accuses Ms Sanchez of having hidden political interests. Ms Sanchez said her website, called 14ymedio, would provide daily news about the communist-run country. She insisted it would not be a platform against the government. But web users in Cuba reported that they were being diverted to a...

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that local radio journalist Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz was gunned down by two individuals on a motorcycle in the eastern border city of Pedro Juan Caballero on 16 May. Alcaraz, who worked for Radio Amambay, was shot 11 times. Senator Robert Acevedo, the station’s owner, said that Alcaraz had often accused people by name of involvement in regional drug trafficking in his radio programme. “It is vital that this murder should not go...

For the first time ever, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a list of profiles of “100 information heroes” for World Press Freedom Day (3 May).Through their courageous work or activism, these “100 heroes” help to promote the freedom enshrined in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the freedom to “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” They put their ideals in the service of...

Reporters Without Borders condemns attacks by police on four journalists from the daily El Colombiano who were covering May Day demonstrations. Andrea Torres, Sebastian Carvajal, Juan Fernando Rojas and Esteban Vanegas were assaulted by riot officers to whom they had made a point of showing their press cards. Vanegas, a photographer, was accused of assaulting public servants. He was released overnight after being held for 12 hours. “This attack took place just over a month after the...