Paraguay

Pablo Medina Velázquez, a Paraguayan journalist who wrote about the country's illegal drug trade, was shot dead on Thursday last along with his assistant, according to news reports. He is the third journalist murdered for his work in Paraguay this year. A regional correspondent for Paraguay's largest independent newspaper, ABC Color, Medina, 53, was returning from a reporting trip outside the...

Authorities in Paraguay should carry out an efficient investigation into the murder of a radio host and lawyer on Thursday, establish a motive, and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Edgar Pantaleón Fernández Fleitas was shot dead by an assailant who entered his law offices in his home in the northern city of Concepción before fleeing on a...

There has been a series of threats and attacks on Gabriel Bustamante, a Paraguayan journalist based in the small southern town of Ayolas on the Argentine border, who works for radio FM Ayolas and who is a correspondent for the newspapers La Nación and Crónica, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Last week, Bustamante was the target of repeated murder attempts by Francisco and Valentín...