Miami (November 8, 2012)—The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced the country-by-country members of the Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information, the body in charge of monitoring and overseeing the observance of these fundamental rights in the Americas.
The Committee, chaired by the editor of the Montevideo, Uruguay, weekly Búsqueda, Claudio Paolillo, is made up of representatives of the IAPA in the Western Hemisphere nations who also present a twice-yearly report during the organization’s two meetings a year.
“I am sure that under his leadership the key work of defending freedom of expression is not only assured but it will be strict and precise,” declared IAPA President Jaime Mantilla of the Ecuador newspaper Hoy, in reference to Paolillo, who assumed the responsibility of the Committee as the IAPA’s General Assembly in São Paulo, Brazil, wound up in mid-October.
Paolillo himself explained that “together with President Mantilla we have called together an extensive group of delegates who will form part of the Committee this year.”
To accompany Paolillo in running the Committee are vice chairmen Fernán Molinos of La Prensa of Panama and Roberto Rock of El Universal of Mexico.
The country-by-country regional vice chairman will be the following delegates:
Argentina: Daniel Dessein, La Gaceta, Tucumán
Aruba and Dutch Antilles: Margaret Wever, The News Aruba, Oranjestad
Bolivia: Pedro Rivero Jordán, El Deber, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil: Ricardo Pedreira, Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ), Brasília
Canada: Scott Anderson, CanWest Publishing, Inc., Ontario
Barbados: Vivian-Anne Gittens, The Nation, Bridgetown
Chile: María Catalina Saieh, Grupo Copesa, Santiago
Colombia: José Eustorgio Colmenares, La Opinión, Cúcuta
Costa Rica: Armando González, La Nación, San José
Cuba: Yoani Sánchez, Generación Y, Havana
Dominican Republic: Miguel Franjul, Listín Diario, Santo Domingo
Ecuador: Pedro Zambrano, El Diario, Portoviejo, Manabí
El Salvador: José Roberto Dutriz, La Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador
Guatemala: Edgard Girón, Siglo XXI, Guatemala City
Haiti: Max Chauvet, Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince
Honduras: Rodolfo Dumas, La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa
Mexico: Armando Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo
Nicaragua: Jaime Chamorro, La Prensa, Managua
Panama: Eduardo Quirós, La Estrella, Panama City
Paraguay: Natalia Zuccolillo, ABC Color, Asunción
Peru: Marco E. Zileri D., Caretas, Lima
Puerto Rico: Héctor Peña, El Nuevo Día, San Juan
United States: David Adams, Poder Magazine, Miami
Uruguay: Washington Beltrán, El País, Montevideo
Venezuela: Gilberto Urdaneta, El Regional de Zulia, Ciudad Ojeda
The IAPA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the defense and promotion of freedom of the press and of expression in the Americas. It is made up of more than 1,300 print publications from throughout the Western Hemisphere and is based in Miami, Florida. For more information please go to http://www.sipiapa.org.
