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The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) concluded that regional press has experienced a serious backlash EL UNIVERSAL The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) Tuesday closed its 62nd annual assembly in Mexico by condemning "reiterated" violation by President Hugo Chávez's Government of the principles of freedom of speech and right to information, as provided for under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and ratified its support to reporters and media, hoping that Venezuela restores respect for the rules. In its final resolution on Venezuela, IAPA rejected "murders, aggressions, intimidation and discrimination against independent reporters and media." It urged the Venezuelan Government to...

IAPA worries that Venezuela "is going the way of Cuba" "It is itself creating a repudiation against the media with the motto 'kill the messenger.'" "The strong rhetoric worries [the IAPA], but it rules out some type of immediate rupture." Mexico City -- The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) showed its preoccupation with Venezuela directing itself towards a similar scheme as that of Cuba of the persecution of freedom of expression on the part of the state. It also warned that in countries like Mexico the press is the victim of organized crime. "It worries us that Venezuela is...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Press freedom advocates normally direct their wrath toward countries where harassment or abuse of journalists is the norm. Lately they have come up with a new target: the United States. On Wednesday, a delegation from the Inter-American Press Association, a Western Hemisphere watchdog group, was making a pilgrimage to Washington to show solidarity with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6. An evening meeting with Miller was planned at the Alexandria (Va.) Detention Center, where she was being held for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak...