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00:00Liston Diario presents the Editorial from the Director.
00:30IAEPA has documented this crisis at its biannual meeting, highlighting an alarming pattern.
00:37Governments of different ideologies are using judicial harassment, physical violence and digital censorship to silence critical voices.
00:46From Guatemala to Peru and in once exemplary nations like Costa Rica,
00:51an institutional deterioration is evident that makes independent journalism a target of persecution.
00:57Even in the United States, Donald Trump's hostile rhetoric against the media fuels a contagion effect on authoritarian leaders in the region.
01:06The paradox is evident.
01:08If journalism were moribund, why so much effort to annihilate it?
01:13The answer lies in its power to monitor power and defend democracy.
01:17Faced with this scenario, the IAPA is promoting concrete actions, fact-checking missions,
01:23alliances to protect exiled journalists and the promotion of declarations like those in Chapultepec.
01:30However, challenges persist, from disinformation amplified by artificial intelligence to the economic suffocation of the media.
01:40The battle for press freedom is not only professional, it is a defense of civilization.
01:45As Jose Ruben Zamora warned from his prison cell in Guatemala,
01:50it is better to live on your feet than on your knees.
01:54Latin America must choose whether it wants societies on their feet or democracies on their knees.
02:00For Listin Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
02:06Listin Diario presented the editorial from the director.