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 | | MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Freedom of the press lost ground in the Western hemisphere in the last six months because of legal restrictions and open threats by governments, impunity for wrongdoers and the violence of organized crime, especially drug traffickers, the Inter American Press Association concluded Tuesday. |
 | | Nine journalists were killed in the last six months -- 53 since the newspaper organization began tracking such murders in 1982 -- including three from Venezuela, three from Colombia, two from Mexico and one from Paraguay. |
 | | Death threats were also made to five Guatemalan journalists, four Paraguayans, two Argentines and one Uruguayan; the offices of two Ecuadorean newspapers and one Paraguayan newspaper were shot at and courts in Costa Rica and Uruguay adopted decisions contrary to press freedom, the group said. |
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