The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced the members of its Committee on Freedom of the Press and Information.
The editor of the Montevideo, Uruguay, weekly Búsqueda, Claudio Paolillo, was ratified as chairman of the Committee by IAPA President Pierre Manigault, of The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina. Accompanying Paolillo in heading the Committee as vice presidents are Lourdes de Obaldía, La Prensa, Panama City, Panama, and Roberto Rock, Grupo La Silla Rota group, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Committee, made up of IAPA representatives in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, has as its main responsibility monitoring press freedom in each of those nations. The regional vice chairmen alert to negative and positive aspects regarding freedom of the press, suggest the issuing of official IAPA pronouncements and, in necessary cases, call for the sending of international delegations to their countries. They are also in charge of drafting twice yearly reports on the state of press freedom. For the 2015-2016 period the country-by-country regional vice chairmen are:
Argentina: Daniel Dessein, La Gaceta, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán
Bolivia: Pedro Rivero Jordán, El Deber, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil: Ricardo Pedreira, Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ), Brasilia
Caribbean: Rashida Bolai, Caribbean Communications Network, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Chile: Alvaro Caviedes, Grupo Copesa, Santiago
Colombia: Roberto Pombo, El Tiempo, BogotáCosta Rica: Armando González, La Nación, San José
Cuba: Yoani Sánchez, 14ymedio, Havana
Dominican Republic: Miguel Franjul, Listín Diario, Santo Domingo
Ecuador: Carlos Pérez, El Universo, Guayaquil
El Salvador: Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador
Guatemala: Mario Alejandro Sandoval, Prensa Libre, Guatemala City
Haiti: Max Chauvet, Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince
Honduras: Rodolfo Dumas, La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa
Mexico: Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila
Nicaragua: Jaime Chamorro, La Prensa, Managua
Panama: Eduardo Quirós, La Estrella de Panamá, Panama City
Paraguay: Natalia Zuccolillo, ABC Color, Asunción
Peru: Manuel Boluarte Carbajal, Inforegión, Lima
Puerto Rico: Héctor Peña, El Nuevo Día, Guaynabo
United States: Bruce Brown, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia
Uruguay: Washington Beltrán, El País, Montevideo
Venezuela: Miguel Henrique Otero, El Nacional, Caracas
The editor of the Montevideo, Uruguay, weekly Búsqueda, Claudio Paolillo, was ratified as chairman of the Committee by IAPA President Pierre Manigault, of The Post and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina. Accompanying Paolillo in heading the Committee as vice presidents are Lourdes de Obaldía, La Prensa, Panama City, Panama, and Roberto Rock, Grupo La Silla Rota group, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Committee, made up of IAPA representatives in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, has as its main responsibility monitoring press freedom in each of those nations. The regional vice chairmen alert to negative and positive aspects regarding freedom of the press, suggest the issuing of official IAPA pronouncements and, in necessary cases, call for the sending of international delegations to their countries. They are also in charge of drafting twice yearly reports on the state of press freedom. For the 2015-2016 period the country-by-country regional vice chairmen are:
Argentina: Daniel Dessein, La Gaceta, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán
Bolivia: Pedro Rivero Jordán, El Deber, Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil: Ricardo Pedreira, Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ), Brasilia
Caribbean: Rashida Bolai, Caribbean Communications Network, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Chile: Alvaro Caviedes, Grupo Copesa, Santiago
Colombia: Roberto Pombo, El Tiempo, BogotáCosta Rica: Armando González, La Nación, San José
Cuba: Yoani Sánchez, 14ymedio, Havana
Dominican Republic: Miguel Franjul, Listín Diario, Santo Domingo
Ecuador: Carlos Pérez, El Universo, Guayaquil
El Salvador: Fabricio Altamirano, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador
Guatemala: Mario Alejandro Sandoval, Prensa Libre, Guatemala City
Haiti: Max Chauvet, Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince
Honduras: Rodolfo Dumas, La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa
Mexico: Carlos Salinas, El Diario de Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila
Nicaragua: Jaime Chamorro, La Prensa, Managua
Panama: Eduardo Quirós, La Estrella de Panamá, Panama City
Paraguay: Natalia Zuccolillo, ABC Color, Asunción
Peru: Manuel Boluarte Carbajal, Inforegión, Lima
Puerto Rico: Héctor Peña, El Nuevo Día, Guaynabo
United States: Bruce Brown, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia
Uruguay: Washington Beltrán, El País, Montevideo
Venezuela: Miguel Henrique Otero, El Nacional, Caracas






