RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The director of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, Carlos Dada, denounced on Wednesday that government agents of the Central American country notified the newspaper editor, Mexican journalist Daniel Lizárraga, that he must leave the country.
Dada said that on Tuesday, “agents of the Salvadoran government” showed up at Lizárraga’s home to “notify him that he has five days to leave El Salvador and that his work permit and temporary residency has been denied because he has not been able to prove that he is a journalist”.
“We consider it, without a doubt, one more form of harassment and attack against us (El Faro), and one more attempt to weaken us,” denounced Dada in an online transmission with Casa América Catalunya, which awarded the media outlet the Antoni Traveria Award for Freedom of Expression.
Loved and decried, El Salvador s populist leader is defiant
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FILE - In this June 1, 2021 file photo, El Salvador s President Nayib Bukele waves during his annual address to the nation to congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele s presidency so far is the story of one of Latin America s newest populist autocracies in the making: spending big to hand out goodies, branding opponents as enemies, raising the profile of the military.(AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
SAN SALVADOR – In the narrow, gang-controlled alleys of the Las Palmas neighborhood, struggling Salvadorans are untroubled by actions of their president that so infuriate his critics.
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The attacks are generated by authoritarian governments, to impose “a single narrative”, with no room for criticism
4 mayo, 2021
Media managers across Latin America see common patterns in the recent spate of attacks on journalists and the media. Throughout the region, these attacks are generated by authoritarian governments wanting to impose “a single narrative”. The aim is to establish an environment where there’s no room for criticism or any other version except the official one.
These were the conclusions of Luz Mely Reyes, during the Fourteenth annual Ibero-American Colloquium on Digital Journalism. Luz Reyes is the cofounder and director of