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Correa’s Creative Use of Copyright Law to Stif...
By Vanessa Aliaga It is safe to say that Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa, does not take criticism well. His frenzied Twitter rants garnered international attention last year when John Oliver, a British comedian and the host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, mocked the president’s temper on air. Bu... |
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Rebooting Media Development: Stop, Look, Listen
It seems that the media development community is always fighting an uphill battle. It is difficult to demonstrate concrete results to donors in media support work, and it is also difficult to move media assistance higher on the overall development agenda. These two things are mutually reinforcing. I... |
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Will President Mauricio Macri Give a New Role to...
By Patricio Provitina In the past decade a number of populist governments in Latin America have implemented significant changes to their respective media regulatory environments. This began in 2005 with Venezuela’s controversial “Law of Social Responsibility for Radio and Television” which was... |
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Challenging Media Ownership by Brazilian Politic...
In Brazil, ownership of media outlets like television and radio stations by politicians has been a long-running concern since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. Civil society groups have complained that politicians have used their media clout to discourage criticism and to promote positiv... |
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Paper Shortage Undermines Print Media in Venezue...
The media environment in Venezuela remains repressive and closely tied to the Maduro government, making it nearly impossible to publish content that questions the government narrative. Today, the wide-read daily newspaper, El Nacional, remains one of the last independent and critical sources of info... |
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Toward Free and Independent Media in Latin Ameri...
CIMA is cosponsoring an international conference on the challenges to independent media in Latin America, to take place this week in Bogota, Colombia, under the auspices of the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and UNESCO. Ot... |
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Ecuador’s Media Watchdog Bites Back
The government of Ecuador is at it again. There’s something about the news media that to the administration of President Rafael Correa is like the proverbial red cape in front of a bull. On Sept. 8, the government’s Communications Secretary informed the Andean Foundation for the Observation and ... |
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Mexico Silenced: Impunity for Attacks on Journal...
Rosario Carmona is Mexican journalist in the United States as a 2014-15 Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland. The views expressed here are her own. One response to the attacks and threats that journalists are facing in some states of Mexico for their coverage of the war among drug... |
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The cost of crime and violence to freedom of the...
Guest post by Ariana Szepesi-Colmenares Homicide rates among the highest in the world; increasing citizens’ fear of crime; urban violence at its peak; pervasive levels of organized crime in all its forms. Citizens, governments, academics, the international community of donors–everybody talk... |
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Meanwhile, in Latin America…
It’s a sign of how far press freedom in Latin America has sunk that a leading expert on press freedom in the region can point to Cuba as a potential bright spot amid a sea of negative developments in the region. At a briefing on the state of freedom of expression in Latin America on […] |