Twice-fired Venezuelan journalist fights on “Once the government knows you who are…they never forget it.” Being an opposition journalist in Venezuela under former president Hugo Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro has never been easy. But...
Despite prosecutor’s death, Argentina ruling party still popular Political fallout for Peronists from Nisman case is muted Even under ordinary circumstances, it would appear Argentina’s ruling Peronist alliance would face an uphill battle in national elections in...
Social media fuels Latin America gay rights movement It can no longer be denied. Latin America, at least in the most urbanized and populated areas, is coming out. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as well as some states in Mexico have already legalized gay marriage....
After father’s death, Cuban dissident carries on fight Activist Rosa María Payá keeps pressure on the Cuban government, who she says killed her father. Panama's security forces had been on the lookout for Rosa María Payá. One of Cuba's most well-known...
Project Exile: After flight, Colombian struggles to resume reporting "I have three bodyguards that come with me everywhere, I always use an armored vehicle." In 2011, Colombian journalist Mary Luz Avedaño published two investigative pieces about drug cartels in her home city...
Project Exile: Venezuela TV journalist finds security in Miami “I remember being on air and having to stop broadcasting so we could lie on the floor and breathe.” For 15 years Alejandro Marcano was a leading journalist in Venezuela on the opposition station...
Ecuador cartoonist hit by Correa’s crackdown "If I censor myself, I would not be a cartoonist anymore. A cartoonist cannot censor himself." If there’s a face of Ecuador’s widening efforts to censor the press, it’s cartoonist Xavier Bonilla. Known...
Eugene Richards: Trust yields photos with emotion Award-winning photographer Eugene Richards’s specialty is intimacy. “I usually don’t photograph something that I can’t touch,” he says. For more than 50 years, Richards established personal...
NPR’s Cornish says authenticity key Co-host of "All Things Considered" explains the art of interviewing For Audie Cornish, the key to successful interviewing is getting to the essence of the person quickly. “If you’re going to put that...
Stuart Loory, the Global Journalist https://soundcloud.com/global-journalist-radio/remembering-stuart-loory Stuart Loory, the founder and longtime host of Global Journalist's radio program, died Jan. 16 at age 82. In this special...
