Latin American Journalists in Danger

Rockwell said that Latin American journalists are in danger of being attacked for what they write. They're up there with Iraqi journalists.



Carreño said that in the last 7 months in Mexico, there have been about six journalists killed, three disappearance. Most of that is because of what they covered.

The problem is not so much of what the government has done, it's what it hasn't done. The government has allowed the violence to have sway in a number of places and it means that the rights of journalists and freedom of expression has been destroyed.



Sotero said that most of the time, people are worried about street crime in Brazil like the burning of buses with people inside them. The president called those acts, terrorist acts.

Sometimes you have a journalist that disappears. Sometimes the owner of a publication, more in the interior of the country, disappear.

Journalists in more remote areas of Brazil are in more danger when they try to expose facts that people don't want them to be revealed (like organized crime having a connection to the police).

Some journalists still report these stories because they're very gutsy, Sotero said, and then that's how these stories get out.

In Columbia, there are some pretty heroic things being done by journalists.