press organization criticized the United States for threatening journalists with jail and raised concerns about journalistic restraints in Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba.
PANAMA CITY, Panama - (AP) -- The Inter American Press Association on Monday criticized U.S. authorities for threatening journalists with jail for refusing to reveal their sources and expressed concern over restraints in Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba.
In a report at the end of its midterm assembly, the newspaper organization said several governments have turned openly hostile to media critics, and ``hopes for a fully free and independent press throughout the hemisphere appear to be dimming.''
The report said five journalists in the region have been killed in the last six months.
It noted that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has ''consolidated his grip over much of the broadcast media through so-called ``gag laws'' and added that in Cuba ``independent journalists remain jailed or muzzled.''
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