An IAPA mission visited Guatemala in February 2019 and met with President Otto Pérez Molina and other officials to express concern about increased violence against journalists and the climate of impunity. The mission called for greater efforts to implement journalist protection programs and solve the murders of four journalists in 2018. During the past six months, six journalists were murdered in the Americas, and the IAPA is investigating whether their deaths were related to their work. The IAPA continues to monitor unresolved cases of violence against journalists and press freedom violations in the region.

1. An IAPA mission visited Guatemala February 19-21 and met with President Otto Pérez Molina and
other senior officials, members of Congress and heads of non-governmental organizations, including
lawyers and journalists. At right, the meeting at the presidential office; (l. to r.): President Pérez Molina,
from behind; Vice President Roxana Baldetti; Presidency Communications Secretary Erick Robles,
and the members of the IAPA mission: regional vice chairman of the Committee on Freedom of the
Press and Information José Roberto Dutriz, El Salvador; committee vice chairman Fernán Molinos,
Panama; IAPA Press Freedom Director Ricardo Trotti; former IAPA presidents Edward Seaton, United
States, and Danilo Arbilla, Uruguay, and Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information
chairman Claudio Paolillo, Uruguay. Gonzalo Marroquín, former IAPA president and editor of the
magazine Crónica, took part in some activities. At left, Paolillo speaks with Guatemalan reporters.
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DECLARATION OF CHAPULTEPEC:
20 YEARS OF SUPPORTING PRESS FREEDOM - PAGE 4
ALSO
IN THIS
ISSUE
1. Impunity
Committee
report
2. Newspapers
in pro-Venezuela
campaign
3. Press Institute
programs
In the English-speaking Caribbean
A unique colonial past and a refreshing
natural beauty is the framework that
Barbados offers us for this so special
2014 Midyear Meeting. The coral island,
just a short distance from Venezuela, is
full of surprises for the visitor. The Friday
seminars program is first-rate and the social
activities will offer a time of entertainment
and friendship. Indeed, a magical place to
renew our commitment to freedom of the
press in the Americas. (Page 2)
BARBADOS IS ONE OF THE BEST JEWELS OF THE ANTILLES
Mission in Guatemala
EMERGENCY
IN VENEZUELA
Venezuela printed newspapers could
be close to extinction. The crisis of the
governmental blockage of foreign currency
for the purchase of newsprint and supplies,
which had already worsened according
to the report on Venezuela presented last
October to the Committee on Freedom
of the Press and Information in Denver,
Colorado, reached in the last six months
an unsustainable point amid generalized
protests against President Nicolás Maduro.
(See report on Page 3)
Directors of the Venezuelan Press Bloc (l. to
r.) Eduardo Alemán, 2nd
vice president; Luisa
Chiossone, general secretary; president David
Natera and Miguel Henrique Otero, 1st
vice
president.

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9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Sources of New
Revenue: Expanding Monetization
Power of Videos. Media companies are
mixing professional and user-generated
video content to maximize exposure,
increase audience engagement and
optimize advertising revenues. Case study
of the experience of Grupo Prisa in the
deployment of the program Dale Al Play.
Panelists: Juan Luis Alonso, Grupo Prisa,
Madrid, Spain; Adrián Segovia, Diario
AS, Madrid, Spain. Moderator: Fernán
Molinos, La Prensa, Panama, Panamá.
Needham’s Point, 1 Room
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Is the Web
Page Becoming Obsolete? What Is The
Future Of The Mobile? The standalone
webpage as we know it might soon be
a thing of the past. Solutions include an
array of content enrichment strategies
that create higher levels of audience
engagement. Panelists: Diego Cobelo
Rodríguez, Classora, Madrid, Spain;
Rosario Henríquez, El Nuevo Día, San
Juan, Puerto Rico. Moderator: Silvia
Miró Quesada, El Comercio, Lima, Peru.
Needham’s Point, 1 Room
SEMINARS IN BARBADOS
FOUR SESSIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 4
Along the
path of
history3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Strategies for the
Recovery of Classified Advertising.
Media companies are developing online
platforms to recapture the classifieds
business with mobile applications,
video ads, and a focus on the local
businesses. Panelists: Marco Enríquez,
Advernet, Madrid, Spain; Julio Bazán,
Asociación Mexicana de Editores,
Mexico City, Mexico. Moderator:
Ernesto Kraiselburd, El Día, La Plata,
Argentina. Needham’s Point,1 Room
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. New Trends in
Online Advertising. Native Advertising
and Programmatic Buying have
become dominant topics in the digital
marketing world. Media companies
ponder these alternatives as part of
their online advertising strategies.
Panelists: Matthew Sanders, Deseret
Digital Media, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Xavier Rius, Netsonic, San Jose,
Costa Rica. Moderator: Armando
Castilla, Vanguardia, Saltillo, Mexico.
Needham’s Point, 1 Room. n
Inside Bush Hill House
One of the places to visit in
Barbados is the house where
for a while there lived, in his
youth, the first president of
the United States, George
Washington (1732-1799).
The man who would come
to be one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States
arrived in Barbados in 1751
with his brother Lawrence,
ill with tuberculosis.This
residence, known as Bush Hill
House, is the only place where
Washington lived outside of
the United States. In 2011 it
wasdesignatedbytheUNESCO
aWorld Heritage Site. It is
located some 1,400 yards from
the Hilton Barbados Resort, the
venue of the Midyear Meeting.
In 1997 President Bill Clinton
and his wife Hillary visited
the residence and unveiled a
plaque recognizing the site
as a“friendship and goodwill”
link between the two nations.
LawrenceWashington was not
cured in Barbados and died the
following year, but that stay
greatly influenced his half-
brother George.The father of
the two died when the future
president was only 11 years
old and Lawrence assumed the
role of paternal model. It was
he who advanced the career of
his brother as leader in military
affairs. n
• Harrison Cave. A cave with lakes and natural rock
formations.
• The Baobad trees. The biggest of this African origin species are found in
Bridgetown’s Queen’s Park.
• Jacobean mansions. Barbados has two of the three mansions of the English
architecture of the early 17th
century that still exist in the Western Hemisphere.
The other is in Virginia in the United States. One of them, open to the public, is
St. Nicholas Abbey.
• Morgan Lewis Windmill. A giant windmill used in grinding sugar.
• The Bridgetown Synagogue. Some 300 Jews arrived in Barbados in the 17th
century, fleeing from persecution in Brazil. This is their historic center.
• Cannon Galore. The English left Barbados full of abandoned cannons. The
oldest dates from 1620 and the newest from 1870. This museum recounts the
history of the English presence through these weapons.
• The Grapefruit. Scientific documentation dating from 1750 says that the first
grapefruit hybrid was produced in Barbados in the 18th century. n
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of Barbados

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During these past six months the murders
have occurred of six journalists in the Americas
(2 in Brazil, 2 in Honduras, 1 in Mexico and 1 in
Colombia), into which it is being investigated
whether they were connected to their work.
The death of Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz in
Mexico saddened local journalists and led to a
group of members of the press, among them
the IAPA Rapid Response Unit representative,
traveling to the interior of the country to carry
out an investigation the results of which are to
be published shortly.
The constant denunciations of violations of
press freedom in Guatemala in recent months
led to an IAPA international delegation
traveling to the Central American country
in mid-February. In meetings with senior
officials, representatives of the three branches
of government, of civil associations and
journalists the IAPA expressed concern at the
new increase in violence against journalists
and the climate of impunity and lack of
protection. Greater effort and diligence in
implementation of the Journalist Protection
Program was called for, along with solving of
four murders of journalists last year.
Given the increase in attacks and violence
against journalists in Brazil the Congress
has before it a bill to make crimes against
members of the press federal offenses and the
government is studying other measures for
protection of the press. The IAPA for its part
has urged media to adopt internal preventive
actions to ensure their staffs’ safety.
While the IAPA welcomed advances in legal
proceedings in the murders of Edinaldo
Filgueira in Brazil and Jean Leopold Dominique in Haiti it
also expressed disapproval of the acquittal in Colombia of
four people accused of having been involved in the January 3,
2002 murder of Orlando Sierra.
At the end of 2013 the balance of cases before the courts
in Colombia and Mexico coming subject to statutes of
limitations is negative. In only those two countries 17 crimes
against journalists remained unpunished. The IAPA, however,
continues contacting the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights (IACHR) concerning 29 unresolved cases
submitted to it since 1997. Since October 2013 action has
been taken before the IACHR regarding eight of these cases in
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. n
Impunity Committee remains on alert
to violence against journalists
SIX MURDERS IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS AND 17 OTHER CASES REMAIN UNPUNISHED
The abduction and later murder of reporter Jiménez
de la Cruz gave rise to numerous protests.
Progress was noted in the
cases of Dominique in
Haiti (above) and Filgueira
in Brazil. But in Colombia
four alleged instigators of
the murder of the editor
of La Patria in Manizales,
Orlando Sierra, were freed.
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The Declaration of
Chapultepec 20 years after
it promulgation “continues
as valid as ever,” according
to the officers of the Inter
American Press Association
(IAPA), who reaffirmed its
relevance in a continent
still beset by violations of
freedom of the press and of
expression.
On reaching a news
anniversary of that act
of March 11, 1994 at
Chapultepec Castle in the Mexican
capital the IAPA announced that it
is to hold a series of activities in its
commemoration. The first of these will be
in Barbados April 4-7, where there will be
discussion of the Declaration’s relevance
as a document to preserve, promote and
defend press freedom.
Other acts are planned for during the
General Assembly that the organization
will hold in Santiago, Chile, in October,
and at regional meetings and webinars
which will focus on application of its
principles, essential for the public’s right
to information and the strengthening of
democracy.
In its preamble the Declaration,
drawn up among former democratic
presidents, Nobel Prize winners, leaders
and journalists, declares that “Without
freedom there can be no true order,
stability and justice. And without
freedom of expression there can be
no freedom.” After recalling “those
visionaries that made this document
and its utility possible” IAPA President
Elizabeth Ballantine, The Durango
Herald, Durango, Colorado, said that “the
relevance of the Declaration lies in that it
commits us as journalists, but especially
ACTIVITIES MARKING 20 YEARS OF
DECLARATION OF CHAPULTEPEC
BEGIN IN BARBADOS
BALLANTINE:‘AS JOURNALISTS AND CITIZENS WE ARE COMMITTED’
“And press freedom
we have defended
with passion, because
we believe that for
a democracy it a
fundamental element,
that is why I said to
you that we did not
hesitate in coming to
this event, as we do
not doubt in signing
the Chapultepec
commitment.”
Juan Manuel Santos
President of Colombia
“It has become the
most important
point of reference on
freedom of expression.
Although it does not
have level force it
does have enormous
authority.”
Santiago Cantón
Former IACHR
Executive Secretary
“We are committed
to permanently seek
the truth, to demand
freedom and tolerance
and to respect ethical
standards and criteria
in communication.”
José Roberto Dutriz
La Prensa Gráfica/
El Salvador
“As democracy is
measured by public
control and scrutiny,
that is why I am
committed to continue
to increase the levels of
transparency.”
Sebastián Piñera
On signing the
Declaration as
President of Chile
as citizens, to defend and promote
freedom of the press and of expression
as priorities to accomplish the common
good.”
The Declaration of Chapultepec contains
10 fundamental principles necessary for
a free press to carry out its essential role
in a democracy. It was approved during
the Hemisphere Conference on Freedom
of Expression in Mexico and since then
adopted by heads of state, leaders,
academics, students and members of the
public of the Americas.
The chairman of the IAPA’s Chapultepec
Committee, José Roberto Dutriz, La
Prensa Gráfica, San Salvador, El Salvador,
added that “the Declaration not only
commits us to permanently seek the
truth, demand freedom and tolerance,
but also it commits us to respect ethical
standards and criteria in communicating.”
The chairman of the Committee on
Freedom of the Press and Information,
Claudio Paolillo, Búsqueda, Montevideo,
Uruguay, stressed that “the Declaration
has become an essential yardstick to
measure the levels of freedom and
democracy that the countries enjoy,
helping to create case law to guarantee
individual rights and freedoms. n

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INTERNATIONAL HOMAGE
TO FEDERICO MAYOR ZARAGOZA
On March 10-13 there was held
at the Social Communication and
Journalism School of the Universidad
de La Sabana university in Bogotá,
Colombia, the 6th
Meeting of
Programs Accredited by the Latin
American Journalism Education
Accreditation Council (CLAEP) and,
at the same time, the 1st Meeting
of Students of Journalism Programs
Accredited by CLAEP.
The theme of the meetings was
“What I Traditional in Journalism
In the Digital Age,” dealt with in
presentations by professors and
students in the three-day events.
Other themes developed were the
challenges of the new journalism,
media that re-invent themselves, and
new audiences.
Taking part in these activities were
CLAEP president and former IAPA
president Tony Pederson, vice
president Alicia Casermeiro de
Pereson, council member Aurelio
Collado, and academic coordinator
Susana Mitchell.n
VI MEETING OF
PROGRAMS
ACCREDITED
BY CLAEP
Those taking part in the meeting are photographed
courtesy of the Universidad de La Sabana.
Julio E. Muñoz converses with former UNESCO Director General Federico
Mayor Zaragoza.
EIAPA Executive Director Julio E. Muñoz attended the international
symposium“UNESCO Relevance”held on February 3 in Paris,
France, in celebration of the 80th anniversary for that organization’s
former Director General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, which had the
participation of leading figures in politics, science and culture.
Muñoz took part in a panel discussion on the role of education
and communication at the service of development chaired by
François Gros, honorary secretary of the French Academy of
Sciences, and made up, among others, of Michael Lakin, former
director of UNESCO’s“Education for All Program”; Henri Lopes,
former assistant director general for Culture and former Prime
Minister of the Republic of the Congo, and Rumanian artist Sorin
Dumitrescu, former assistant director general for Science. Another
panel discussion,“The Culture of Peace,”was chaired by former
United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In his
presentation Muñoz emphasized the role of UNESCO kin the fight
against the new World Information Order and the impetus that
Mayor Zaragoza has given it.
In the live presentations direct or taped support was given by
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova and former directors
general Amadou Mahtar M’Bow (1974-1987) and Koïchiro
Matsuura (1999-2009) and former President of Ireland Mary
Robinson; former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan;
former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso; former
President of Senegal and Secretary General of La Francophinie
Abdou Diouf; President of the now defunct Soviet Union Mikhail
Gorbachev; former Prime Minister of Portugal Mario Soares, and
2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine winner Luc Montagnier. n

6. Two campaigns of great impact on public opinion for coming
out against the violence plaguing Venezuela were disseminated
throughout the hemisphere at the initiative of newspapers and
institutions belonging to the IAPA. Miami’s Diario Las Américas
organized the distribution of information abut the oppression
being faced in Venezuela, reaching several newspapers and other
publications in Spanish and Portuguese. At the same time, under
the leadership of the Colombian Association of Newspaper and
News Media Editors (ANDIARIOS), the Grupo de Diarios América
group (GDA) and Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos (PAL)
a similar campaign in just a few days spread to 80 media in the
region that published a full page each day with news taken
from Venezuelan papers. This initiative also intended to show
the government in Caracas that the regional press will remain
firm in defense of freedom of expression and the people’s
right to receive information. In the poster below distributed
by ANDIARIOS you can see the front pages of the participating
newspapers. n
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escalada de violência,com a repressão
das forças do governo Nicolás Maduro a
protestos populares.
As imagens nesta página,divulgadas
pelo Diário dasAméricas,publicação
da Sociedade Interamericana de
Imprensa (SIP),são mostras da vontade
de um povo de não deixar seu destino
ser arrebatado diante dos desmandos
da repressão chavista.Em ordem
cronológica,elas narram os confrontos
no país caribenho.
1) 12 de fevereiro, Dia da Juventude, foi eleito para
a “desobediência civil”. A escassez, a insegurança,
o controle de preços, o controle do câmbio, além da
vulnerabilidade dos direitos civis, foram os motivos
que levaram a população às ruas.
2) As manifestações tiveram lugar em cidades como Caracas,
Valencia, Mérida, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisímeto, entre
outras. Líderes da oposição levantaram a voz para destacar o
espírito pacífico do protesto para rechaçar as políticas de Maduro
e buscar uma alternativa ao atual governo.
3) O protesto chamado “A Rua é a Saída” reuniu, de
forma pacífica e contundente, milhares de venezuela-
nos em cada ponto de concentração. Quando a mani-
festação estava prestes a se dissolver, os ativistas
foram atacados em uma emboscada.
5) No monumento José Marti, em Caracas, vestido de branco e agarrado à bandeira venezuelana, o opositor Leopoldo
López, preso por incitação aos protestos, anunciou: – Se minha prisão serve para o despertar de um povo, valerá a pena.
Entregou-se, como havia prometido, à Guarda Nacional, “sem colocar ninguém em risco”.
4) A primeira vítima das manifestações em Caracas
foi o estudante Bassil DaCosta, 19 anos. Atingido por
um tiro, o jovem morreu apesar dos esforços de seus
companheiros para transportá-lo a um hospital.
6) Tanques antimotim da Guarda Nacional e policiais
arremeteram contra os manifestantes. Reportam-se
repressão, abusos, mais de cem detidos e a morte de
mais dois jovens. Um deles, Robert Redman, havia car-
regado DaCosta em seus braços e morreria na noite
de 12 de fevereiro.
7) As manifestações tomaram o país. Na ima-
gem, um opositor levanta as mãos em frente à
Polícia Bolivariana após ser alvo de gás lacrimogêneo
em Caracas.
8) Jornadas de protes-
tos em todo o país pro-
vocam mais derramamen-
to de sangue. A jovem
Géminis Carmona, Miss
Turismo 2013 da cidade
de Carabobo, fica ferida à
bala na cabeça. É levada
de moto ao hospital mais
próximo.
9) O padre José Palmar, líder religioso ex-chavista, sofre
um desmaio após ser espancado na Praça República.
Géminis Carmona morre no início da tarde. Familiares e
amigos culpam o chavismo pelo assassinato.
10) Na madrugada de 20 de fevereiro, as manifesta-
ções não cessam, tampouco a repressão. Mensagens
de pessoas pedindo auxílio inundam as redes sociais.
Denunciam-se tiroteios contra edifícios residenciais.
Ratifica-se a privação de liberade de imprensa com a
expulsão de jornalistas da CNN do país.
DOZENS OF NEWSPAPERS FORCEDTO SHUT DOWN
On February 10 the Inter American Press Association (IAPA)
expressed its support for a march called by press organizations
in Venezuela to call on the government to provide newspapers
with access to foreign currency needed to import newsprint and
other production supplies. Dozens of papers had to shut down
and others will do so in the immediate future, due to the fact they
are not allowed to import newsprint, inks and other supplies not
manufactured in the country.
The march was organized by the National Press Workers Union
(SNTP). It will wind up outside the National Foreign Trade Center
(CENCOEX) in Caracas and will have the support of the National
Journalists Guild (CNP) and print media companies workers.
According to estimates gathered by the press in inland
Venezuela there have stopped printing on a temporary basis
10 newspapers since September 2013, of which five (El Sol de
Maturín, Diario de Sucre, Antorcha, El Expreso and El Guayanés)
were still out of circulation at the end of January. Another 29
media in the capital and in the interior of the country have
reduced the number of pages and have stopped publishing
their supplements and weekend magazines. n
Diario Las Américas of Miami prepared
a graphic report on the most shocking
happenings in Venezuela in February and,
adapting them to the format of various
newspapers participating through the
IAPA, achieved the fact that more than 20
of the region’s leading papers echoed the
difficulties facing the Venezuelan people.
In the photo, a front page of Zero Hora,
Porto Alegre, Brazil.

7. The editor of the Venezuelan
newspaper El Nacional, Miguel
Henrique Otero, on March
18 accused the Venezuelan
government of President
Nicolás Maduro of applying a
discriminatory treatment of his
newspaper, which is facing the
threat of shutdown dye to lack
of newsprint for hits presses
Otero said that the
discriminatory action against
El Nacional violates the
Constitution, the right to work
of some 600 people and the
right to freedom of information,
as there continues to be denial
of access to foreign currency
for the importation of the
primary product. He said that
the newsprint inventories are at
a critical point, estimating that
the newspaper has a capacity to
circulate only until May, being
limited to an issue of just eight
pages.
He said he had information that
there will be arriving in Caracas
a shipment of 4,500 tons of
newsprint for the newspaper
Últimas Noticias, which was
recently purchased by a group
close to the government.
Otero declared that his
newspaper had complied
with all the steps to obtain
dollars required by the foreign
exchange control in place
for more than a decade and
he stressed that he will not
change his stance critical of
the government. Otero was
accompanied by the editor
of El Impulso, which is also
threatened with closure. Carlos
Carmona said that his 110-year-
old newspaper has had to resort
to a newsprint for magazines
that is 30%more expensive in
order to circulate with just one
section, given the impossibility
of obtaining foreign currency for
importation. n
According to an announcement by the
chairman of the IAPA’s Committee on
Freedom of the Press and Information,
Claudio Paolillo, the Venezuela case will
be one of the major discussions that the
organization will have during its Midyear
Meeting in Barbados.
March 7 - The precautionary measures
ruled by a judge against the executives
of the Venezuelan newspaper TalCual
demonstrate, according to the IAPA, a
strategy of governmental censorship within
all the branches of government, with the
aim of infringing freedom of expression
and the people’s right to information.
Paolillo said that “this act of censorship
of an independent media outlet does
not derive from a whim of a judge, but
a governmental strategy that over more
than a decade has demonstrated a pattern
of effective censorship of traditional
news media and in frank violation of
the people’s rights to seek and receive
information.”
March 6 - Consternation at multiple
violations of the practice of journalism in
a context of general repression of press
freedom and criminalization of public
protest, one of the forms of freedom of
expression. The National Workers Union
denounces the arrest of 78 journalists
during coverage of the February 12 to
March 3 protests. It added that 19 had
their equipment seized by police and pro-
government armed civilians.
February 24 - Condemnation of the
news censorship applied by President
Nicolás Maduro that is manifested in the
hostile treatment national and foreign
journalists and news media. The pressure
and harassment of media and journalists
since the protests began on February 12
had resulted in 61 cases of violations of
freedom of expression, according to figures
compiled by the National Journalists Guild,
National Press Workers Union and the
non-governmental organization Espacio
Público. Concerning incidents against the
official press Venezolana de Televisión
(VTV) complained that the headquarters
of this public TV channel was attacked with
explosive devices and that in those attacks
journalist Mayra Cienfuegos was shot at and
injured.
Chronology of IAPA official
press releases on Venezuela
ELNACIONAL:
NEWSPRINT
SUPPLIES UNTIL MAY
February 13 - - The IAPA said that the
indefinite blockage of the TV channel NTN24
in Venezuela is a“gross censorship”by the
government to silence all independent,
informative or critical voices. National
television channels abstained from showing
pictures of the protests. These are bound by
legal and administrative dispositions that do
not allow them to broadcast acts of violence
under threat of hefty fines and sanctions.
President Maduro says that the measures seek
to end the“yellow journalism”of violence and
the“propaganda”against his regime.
February 10 - The IAPA expressed its support
for a march called by press organizations in
Venezuela to demand that the government
grant newspapers access to foreign currency
needed for the importation of newsprint
and other production supplies. According
to press reports from September 2013 to
that date in inland Venezuela 10 newspapers
had stopped printing. Another 29 media
outlets in the country’s capital and interior
have reduced the number of their pages
and stopped publishing supplements and
weekend magazines. Paolillo stressed that
the obstacles to accessing foreign currency
and permits to import newsprint and other
supplies are part of an official strategy aimed
at punishing independent media.
January 7 - The IAPA blamed the government
of Venezuela for the potential shutdown of
the newspaper El Impulso, prevented from
importing newsprint and other supplies as
part of an official strategy aimed at punishing
independent media. The newspaper,
Venezuela’s oldest that on January 1
celebrated its 110th anniversary, said that
this situation could affect the quality of
information and could be forced to have to
halt its distribution.n
“We are concerned
the situation in
Venezuela, where
complying with the
duty of the news
media to keep the
population informed
has become, in
the view of the
government, an act
of opposition.”
CLAUDIO PAOLILLO

8. De izq. a der., el director ejecutivo de la SIP, Julio E. Muñoz; el copresidente de la
Comisión de Recaudación de Fondos de la SIP, Fabricio Altamirano; el presidente de
la SIP (2010-2011), Gonzalo Marroquín; la directora de Comunicaciones de Avianca-
Taca, Claudia Arenas Bianchi; Milton Coleman, presidente de la SIP (2011-2012) y el
presidente de la Comisión de Asuntos Internacionales de la SIP, Jorge Canahuati.
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In November 2013 nearly 60 editors of female magazines from 15
countries met in Miami. Under the title “Female Magazines: The
Luxury of Latin American Newspapers” it was the first presentation
of the Press Institute on this subject and the response in terms of
attendance was encouraging. In another unprecedented topic in the
Institute programs some 30 journalists specializing in finance met in
January 2014 in Panama for a seminar titled “World Trade: Challenge
to Journalism” and in mid-March there was held in San Salvador,
El Salvador, the annual seminar for news editors under the title of
“Newsrooms, Audiences and Leaders of Digital Newspapers.” Some 80
people attended these two seminars, the majority of them editors of
newspapers in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Panama,
Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United States and
Ecuador n
Press Institute
Calendar
iN-PERSON-SEMINARS
> Strategies and Tools For A Better
Journalism in Social Media
Guatemala City, Guatemala/ May
> Narrative Journalist: A Key to Add
Readers
Miami, Florida/ May 28,29,30
> Monetization of Digital Platforms
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
May 5 and 6
> 8th Meeting of Popular Papers and
Community Marketing
Buenos Aires, Argentina / August
WEBINARS
> Journalists Coverage of World Trade
Josep Bosch, WTO, Geneva, Switzerland
March 21
> Audiovisual Content to Increase
Audiences
Fernando Golscher, Grupo Dutriz, El Salvador
March 27
> Advice for Blogging Successfully in
Newspapers
Guadalupe López, La Nación, Argentina
April 9
> Integration of Newsrooms at La Nación,
Costa Rica
Juan Pablo Ferrari, La Nación, Costa Rica
April 17
> The Time of Narrative Journalism
Daniel Ulanovsky Sack, Clarín, Argentina
April 24
In Panama (l. to r.) Josep Bosch, spokesman of the World Trade Organizations; Fernán
Molinos, sub director and executive editor of La Prensa, Panama, who is also the chairman
of the Board of the IAPA Press Institute; Rolando Rodríguez, associate director of La
Prensa, Panama, and Edwin Cabrera, director of information of Radio Panamá.
In San Salvador Eduard Ramos Soldevila, one of the seven presenters in the seminar“Integrated
Newsrooms, Leaders and Audiences of Digital Newspapers”held in San Salvador, seen with the
participants.The event had the support of the Grupo Dutriz group.
Press Institute on the march

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On February 6 in the Dorado Room of the Yellow
House, headquarters of Costa Rica’s Foreign Relations
and Culture Ministry, Professor Claudio Grossman
assumed the Presidency of the General Assembly
of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
(IIDH). He succeeded Sonia Picado. Grossman, a
Chilean, is a law professor and dean of the American
University Washington College of Law and Raymond
Geraldson senior lecturer in International and
Humanitarian Law. He is president of the United
Nations Anti-Torture Committee, has been a member
and chairman of the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights, the Commission’s rapporteur on the
rights of indigenous populations, and rapporteur for
the rights of women (1996-2000). n
GROSSMAN BECOMES
IIDH PRESIDENT
Aguiar: Corresponding
Academic Member
The Board of Governors of the Hispano-American Royal
Academy of Science, Arts and Letters unanimously
elected as its Corresponding Academic Member
Venezuelan jurist, professor and writer Asdrúbal
Aguiar, who is a columnist for various news media
in the Americas and
Spain and a member of
the Inter American Press
Association’s Board of
Directors. Aguiar, with a
doctorate in law and a
Corresponding Academic
Member of the National
Acadamies of Moral and
Political Science and of
Law and Social Science of
Buenos Aires, has been a
professor of International
Law at the Universidad
Católica Andrés Bello
university in Caracas for
nearly four decades and recently in Buenos Aires. He
will read his incorporation speech and receive the
Royal Academy’s medal in a solemn ceremony to be
held in Cádiz, Spain, on June 18. n
Professor Claudio Grossman
Dr. Asdrúbal Aguiar
The Journalism School of Florida International
University (FIU) and FIU’s Center for Latin America
and the Caribbean on March 27 held the 31st Annual
Workshop for Reporters and Editors under the title
“How Free Are The News Media In The Americas Today?”
The event took place on the University of Miami’s
Biscayne Bay campus.
Among the speakers were Raúl Reis, dean of the
FIU Journalism School, and Carlos Lauria, of the
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), who opened the
program with a presentation on the state of freedom of
expression in the Americas.
One of the panel discussions, “Setting The Pace
In In-Depth Reporting In Latin America And The
Caribbean,” was moderated by IAPA Press Freedom
Director Ricardo Trotti and had the participation of
Carlos Dada of the digital newspaper El Faro of El
Salvador; Frances Robles of The New York Times and
Mario Diament, FIU professor, and Miami journalists
Tim Padgett and Claudia Gurisatti. The following
panel discussion, “Legal and Ethical Challenges and
Opportunities,” was moderated by Leonardo Ferreira
of FIU and was made up of lawyers and journalists,
among them Emilio Palacio, columnist with El
Universo, Ecuador, exiled in the United States, along
with John Virtue and Victor Uribe of FIU and Sergio
Otálora of Diario Las Américas, Miami.
In the afternoon sessions Venezuelan jurist Asdrúbal
Aguiar and Elizabeth Román of FIU gave the
presentation “The Media and the Court of Final
Recourse” Study Cases of the Inter-American Human
Rights Court.”
Former IAPA president Alejandro J. Aguirre (2009-
2010) and Leonardo Ferreira headed the workshop
titled “The Impact of the Declaration of Chapultepec:
A Retrospective On Its 20th Anniversary.” The
moderator was lawyer Thomas Julin of the Hunton &
Williams LLP firm. n
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Work has begun on preparations for the IAPA’s
70th
General Assembly October 17-21 in Santiago,
Chile. The venue will be the Hotel W, although the
possibility has been raised of holding the opening
ceremony and other meetings at the headquarters
of the Economic Commission for Latin America
(ECLA), a United Nations entity
Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet is going to be
invited to the opening ceremony and to add her
signature to the Declaration of Chapultepec.
The Host Committee, made up of all the newspapers
and other publications of the Consorcio Periodístico
de Chile (COPESA) and El Mercurio, the oldest
Spanish-language newspaper in circulation, founded
in 1827, had already completed the first draft of
activities and panel discussions for the meeting.
Among prominent figures who have been invited,
or will be, are writer and journalist Álvaro Vargas
Llosa and Special Rapporteur for Freedom of
Expression Catalina Botero. Among the scheduled
social activities is a welcoming dinner at the
PROGAM FOR 70TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
IN CHILE NOW TAKING SHAPE
For fifth time that country is the venue of IAPA’s annual meeting
Model of the CopArtes Theater, an extraordinary
project of cultural development to be inaugurated in
mid 2014 in Santiago.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
2014
70th General Assembly
Santiago, Chile
October 17-21
2015
Midyear Meeting
Panama City, Panama
Date and Hotel
T.B.A.
71st General Assembly
Charleston, South Carolina
Date and Hotel
T.B.A.
ECLA (CEPAL in Spanish) is the United Nations
entity responsible for promoting the region’s
economic and social development. Its work
is concentrated on the field of economic
research. The Deputy Executive Secretary has
been Mexican Alicia Bárcena Ibarra. From its
headquarters in Santiago two sub-regional offices
are coordinated – one for Central America based
in Mexico City, created in 1951 by some leading
economists such as Ifigenia Martínez, and the
other for the countries of the Caribbean, located
in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, since 1966.
CorpArtes Theater, to be inaugurated in May this
year, another presentation at the Las Condes
Municipal Theater and a tour of the vineyards on
the outskirts of Santiago. The Chilean capital has
been the venue of the IAPA General Assembly
times – 1962, 1972, 1987 and 2000. Thus this will
be the fifth occasion.
Keep informed about the development of the
program of this 70th IAPA General Assembly
which promises to be unforgettable. n

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