Violence threatens media in Americas: press group

“Violence against the physical integrity of journalists and a growing intolerance of authoritarian governments constitute the primary problems that face the independent press today on the continent,” a statement said at the conclusion of the meeting in Sao Paulo.

IAPA said 13 journalists were murdered over the past six months in Mexico, Honduras, Brazil and Ecuador, “for the simple fact that they were doing their work.”

It accused the presidents of Venezuela, Argentina and Ecuador of “trying to silence” independent journalism in their countries “through regulatory legislation, discrimination in official advertising, and immense state-run and private media mechanisms used to slander and carry out dirty campaigns.”

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