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IAPA 2018 review: Highs and lows of press freedom in the Americas (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 4, 2019

The president of the IAPA declared that advances in legal and digital issues were overshadowed by the murders of 31 journalists and media workers, the imprisonment of five others, and by the constant attacks on individual and social liberties in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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