A new report on press freedoms worldwide contains a chilling figure: Only 2 percent of Latin Americans live in countries with a free press. But I wonder whether the report paints an accurate picture of what’s going on in the region.
Before we get into that, let’s look at the main conclusions of the “Freedom of the Press 2014: A global survey of media independence” report by Freedom House, one of the oldest and most influential human rights advocacy groups in Washington, D.C.
According to the report, global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, mainly because of a major regression in
