Overview
- Appeals from Argentina’s ADEPA and Pope León XIV on Sunday pressed for concrete protections and condemned routine attacks on journalists during UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day.
- Peru’s press faces mounting risk in 2026 as the National Journalists Association records 140 attacks so far, with Lima logging 64 cases and frequent aggressors linked to political supporters and public officials.
- Reporters Without Borders ranks Peru 144th after a 14-place drop tied to the 2025 murders of four journalists and to protection systems that RSF says are weak or ineffective.
- Argentina’s debate over official access sharpened after the government restricted, then moved to restore, entry to the Casa Rosada press room, while ADEPA warned that verbal attacks by authorities corrode democratic debate.
- International monitors describe a wider pattern driven by organized crime and wars, with commemorations and local events urging safer conditions so the public can get verified information.