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IAPA reports on Latin American press |
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InterAmerican Press Association (IAPA) report calls on countries to protect reporters and shield sources
Mar.19.- Press freedom in Latin America is being hurt by some leftist
governments' intolerance of criticism and a spate of drug mafia-ordered
murders of journalists in Mexico, according to reports issued at a
newspaper industry meeting. ...
Greatest concern continues to emanate from Venezuela, where President Hugo
Chavez has consolidated his grip over much of the broadcast media through so-called
"gag" laws, and from Cuba, where independent journalists remain
jailed or muzzled by the Fidel Castro government, as they have for more than
four decades. ...
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