The Miami-based Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been publishing an annual freedom of speech list, known as the Chapultepec index, since 2020. It evaluates how the US, Canada and Latin American countries do when it comes to protecting media freedoms. Attacks during coverage of procedures undertaken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had raised concerns about journalistic freedoms, it said. The report said that 180 attacks against media workers were recorded in the Central American country between May and July last year. Haiti was included for the first time in the annual report and was ranked as one of the countries with the least press freedom in the Americas.
