This text by then-IACHR president Sergio García and his senior attorney and colleague Alejandra Gonza says that “when the State does not guarantee full exercise of freedom of expression and of the press and creates hostile environments toward media and journalists, journalists are forced to choose between putting their life and often that of their family at risk, or abandoning their investigations and ceasing to report on certain issues.”
Dicen: “Cuando el Estado no garantiza el pleno ejercicio de la libertad de expresión y de la libertad de prensa e implementa ambientes de hostilidad hacia medios y periodistas, los periodistas y las periodistas tienen que elegir entre estar poniendo en riesgo sus vidas, y muchas veces la de sus familias, o abandonar sus investigaciones y dejar de informar sobre determinados temas”.