Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
Brazil prison conditions fuel gang crisis
By  • 1 February 2018
Back in January 2017, Brazil experienced a wave of massive and grisly prison riots. More than 130 inmates were killed in a few weeks in fighting between rival gangs. Many of the of the dead…
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Warrant for mayor arrest in Paraguay killings
By  • 15 December 2014
Prosecutors in Paraguay have issued an arrest warrant for a former mayor accused of killing a journalist and his assistant Oct. 16 after they returned from a reporting assignment in the indigenous settlement of Ko’ê…
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Paraguay launches inquiry into journalists' slaying
By  • 25 November 2014
Paraguay's national legislature will launch a special inquiry into the killing of a reporter and his assistant who had reported on drug trafficking and timber smuggling in the South American nation. Paraguay's Senate and Chamber…
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Paraguayan reporter killed in ambush
By  • 20 October 2014
A reporter for one of Paraguay's largest independent newspapers and his assistant were killed in an attack in an eastern province known for drug trafficking and timber smuggling. Pablo Medina, a correspondent for the newspaper…
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Paraguayan reporter killed after cartel coverage
By  • 19 May 2014
A Paraguayan broadcast journalist who had covered drug trafficking near the country’s lawless border with Brazil was shot and killed in the northern city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Fausto Gabriel Alcaraz, a reporter for Radio…
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