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The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022

Protesters in Rio De Janeiro with a banner calling for justice for the murdered Guardian contributor Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were killed in June 2022.
Protesters in Rio de Janeiro with a banner calling for justice for the murdered Guardian contributor Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, killed in June 2022. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

More journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean than in any other part of the world last year, including the Ukraine war zone, the press watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said.

In a report released on Tuesday, the group said that, globally, at least 67 journalists and media workers had been killed in 2022, nearly double the 2021 figure of 45.

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