Uruguay

Reporters Without Borders has reiterated its support for Uruguay’s Broadcasting Communication Services Law (LSCA). Submitted by the government to the chamber of deputies in May 2013 and approved by the chamber in December, it is now awaiting approval by the senate. Described last year as exemplary by UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression Frank La Rue, the LSCA is expected to bring a...

A far-right wing group in Uruguay has mounted an Internet attack of intimidation on a journalist who specialises in investigations into the crimes of the dictatorship that ran the country between 1973 and 1985, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The group, calling itself “Freedom and Concord Forum” (Foro Libertad y Concordia), to be found on the social...

A revolution of sorts is under way in Latin America with Uruguay holding the torchlight for the concept of democratic, community media. A draft community media law that says television and radio frequencies in Uruguay should be equitably distributed has already won overwhelming support in the House of Representatives. On June 5, 2007, the Uruguayan Congress (Cámara de Representantes) approved by...