The Challenges of Journalism in Exile in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela [Video]

Journalism Exiled

The Inter-American Press Association (SIP) this year awarded the “Great Prize for Press Freedom 2024”, its highest distinction, to Journalism in Exile “in honour of colleagues and Latin American media that are increasingly forced to move or emigrate due to the violence, threats and persecution by criminal groups, corrupt officials and authoritarian governments.”

SIP has documented a growing increase in the number of exiled journalists, “mainly from countries such as Nicaragua, Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba and Ecuador, and internally displaced people in Mexico and Colombia. The phenomenon also includes the editorial staff of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, some of which have their operations abroad because they are victims of systematic persecution.”

The challenges to continue doing journalism in exile are monumental. The most urgent is to provide security to journalists and collaborators, who are at risk, and to the news sources to communicate through secure channels. The most complex is to achieve financial sustainability of the newsrooms in exile.

My colleague Luz Mely Reyes, editor …

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