On 27 March 2024, Lima prosecutor Alcides Chinchay opened an investigation against prominent journalist and writer Gustavo Gorriti, founder and editor-in-chief of IDL-Reporteros, for alleged bribery and requested that he reveal…

Investigative journalist Julián Edelberto Navarrete Silva was subjected to harassment in 2024 that led to his leaving the country to avoid arrest. He told PEN International that the harassment began on 26 April 2024, when…

The Mexican sociologist, columnist, activist and writer faced a smear campaign from then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2024. The attacks began with the publication of her book, Los puntos sobre las íes: El legado de un…

On 17 May 2024, Mexican journalist and author Anabel Hernández García and Penguin Random House made public the attempts at censorship made against the book La historia secreta: AMLO y el Cartel de…

Mexican cartoonist, publisher and author Beatriz Maricela Gutiérrez de Velasco Verduzco (Mexico City, 1976), also known as Beatrix, received a series of intimidating messages on 29 January 2024 from public official Sandra Cuevas…

In 2024, political scientist, journalist and author Denise Dresser Guerra challenged ongoing harassment and threats posted on Dresser's personal social media that had begun in April 2023 in connection…

Writer, poet and land defender Mikeas Sánchez Gómez was threatened with death on 7 November 2024. Sánchez told PEN International that she filed a complaint, but the Public Prosecutor's Office…

On 28 November 2024, the journalist and writer Yohali Reséndiz received a death threat, including a video showing a dead body. Hours later, in a phone call from an unknown…

In 2024, poet and migrants rights’ defender Balam Rodrigo Pérez Hernández continued to be subject to death threats, which began in 2018, from criminal groups in the state of Chiapas…

On 7 May 2024, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Francisco Morazán ordered the final dismissal of charges against Cesario Alejandro Félix Padilla Figueroa and his fellow students Sergio Ulloa and Moisés…

Writer and journalist Ivon Montserrat Arita Guzmán has been subject to ongoing harassment since 2017, which continued in 2024. According to information received by PEN International, on 27 February 2024…

Guatemalan journalists Marvin Del Cid and Sonny Figueroa faced continuing harassment in 2024. On 18 September 2024, Sonny Figueroa posted on social media that public officials had exposed personal…

The poet Carlos Bucio Borja was arrested for reading aloud articles of the Salvadoran Constitution on 4 February 2024, the day of the presidential elections in El Salvador…

Authorities continued to prosecute exiled novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija for ‘offensive communications’ under Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act although the section was declared…