Honduras: Ten Murders and No Justice
But the press is not only a victim of murders in Honduras. Other problems are censorship and self-censorship, which could be aggravated if a new law aimed at regulating news coverage of violence and crime is passed.
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The bill, which will begin to be debated in early 2011, would censor “any internationally broadcast news… that hurts the image of the country and scares off tourism and foreign investment,” the draft law states.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that talking about the 2009 coup would be seen as “hurting the image of the country”.
[Source: IPS]
