Writer and journalist Joaquín Morales Solá was a victim of stigmatisation in 2024. On 6 April 2024, while at a conference, President Milei criticised Morales Solá after the writer published opinion pieces criticising the president…

On 17 March 2024, shortly before the Day of Commemoration for Truth and Justice on 24 March, the non-fiction publishing house Marea, which specialises in journalism and human rights, faced a troll attack…

Writer and teacher María Sol Fantin faced attempts in 2024 to censor her book Si no fueras tan niña. Memorias de la violencia (*If you weren't such a child: Memories of violence*, Paidós, 2022), an autobiographical work that recounts the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of a teacher. On 17 November 2024, Vice-President…

On 13 April 2024, President Javier Milei publicly insulted the novelist and journalist Jorge Fernández Díaz and discredited his work as a columnist. The author and journalist had published several opinion pieces criticising…

In 2024, authorities attempted to censor the book Las aventuras de la China Iron (The Adventures of China Iron), written by writer and journalist Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, on the grounds that it contained sexually explicit content…

On 15 May 2024, writer, editor and professor Alirio José Fernández Rodríguez received a threatening phone call from an unknown number, which he believes was state sanctioned. As a result, Fernández Rodríguez told PEN International that he…

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…

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…

Impunity for the December 2005 arrest and torture of Lydia Cacho Ribeiro continued in 2024. Arrested for alleged defamation in connection with her 2005 book Los Demonios del Edén: el poder detrás…

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…

Journalist, human rights defender, and founding member of PEN Honduras Dina Meza faced continuing harassment during the year. Meza’s security situation remained a serious concern. (For details of previous harassment see…