Tragedy in Haiti: IAPA offers solidarity MIAMI, Florida (January 14, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) expressed its solidarity with the people of Haiti during the tragedy that enveloped the Caribbean nation and offered its support to the news media there. Despite the natural disaster, they have gone out of their way with great sacrifice to inform and serve their people with only sparse resources and the Internet.
IAPA pleased with Brazils indemnization for crimes against journalists IAPA pleased with Brazils indemnization for crimes against journalists Expresses hope that crimes are a thing of the past MIAMI, Florida (January 18, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today welcomed news of the approval by the Bahia state government in Brazil to make reparation payments to the family of journalist Manoel Leal de Oliveira, founder and editor of the newspaper A Região, murdered in 1998. This act put the state in compliance with a recommendation by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Ongoing violence against journalists in Mexico alarms IAPA Miami (January 20, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed alarm at another journalists murder in Mexico and announced it will send an international mission to the country to meet with President Felipe Calderón and government officials. Mission members will push for greater political will to drive legal reforms and protective measures against the violence and impunity that are affecting the press.
IAPA concerned at journalists conviction in Spain Miami (January 21, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed great concern at the sentencing of two newsman with Spains Cadena SER to 21 months in prison and order not to work any longer as journalists handed down by a Madrid court on a charge of disclosure of secrets in their airing on the news networks online portal allegations of wrongdoing in the functioning of a political party.
Journalists eviction from Haitian airport protested by IAPA Miami (January 21, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today expressed concern at an order by the U.S. military to reporters camped at the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti to leave the area. The organization called for the reversal of the order to permit journalists access to sources and facilities in order to transmit information and that their right to free movement be respected.
Vehement protest from the IAPA on shutdown of RCTV Internacional and other Venezuelan cable TV channels Miami (January 25, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today strongly condemned the closing of RCTV Internacional and several cable television channels in Venezuela and criticized the governments intolerance of press freedom and its interference in the peoples right to decide what media they want to get their information from.
IAPA renews protest at closure of television channels, Chávez governments communication hegemony Miami (January 27, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today reiterated that the closure of six Venezuelan cable television channels is yet another demonstration of how press freedom and free speech continue to deteriorate in the South American country as a direct consequence of the federal government there.
IAPA urges speed-up in solving murder of Brazilian journalist MIAMI, Florida (January 28, 2010)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) in an ad appearing in more than 400 newspapers throughout the Western Hemisphere today complained at the lack of action and the silence in investigations into the murder of Brazilian journalist Nivanildo Barbosa Lima.
IAPA urges speed-up in solving murder of Brazilian journalist MIAMI, Florida (January 28)The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) in an ad appearing in more than 400 newspapers throughout the Western Hemisphere today complained at the lack of action and the silence in investigations into the murder of Brazilian journalist Nivanildo Barbosa Lima.