On Sunday, October 19, 2025, the final day of the 81st General Assembly of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), an advocacy group representing the leading media organizations in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the Inter-American Press Association, in its annual report, highlighted that "Many journalists in Haiti live in fear of being harassed, attacked, or killed."

Its report denounced the intensification of repressive campaigns and death threats against Haitian journalists, some of whom are forced to travel with armed protection or in armored vehicles.

Although no journalists were killed this year, several journalists, facing imminent threats to their lives, were forced to seek refuge in the provinces. Entire editorial teams were forced under threat to abandon their posts, leaving their offices looted and their equipment vandalized.

The threats against journalist Joseph Guyler C. Delva, Secretary General of SOS Journalists and Vice President of the IAPA Committee for Freedom of the Press and Information, illustrate the prevailing climate of intimidation. Suffering from constant harassment due to his work and activism, Delva suspended his professional activities in August, including his role as co-host of the influential program Matin Caraïbes. In September, he was forced to leave the country following death threats.

In Mirebalais, on the Central Plateau, armed gangs took control of a radio station and renamed it "Taliban FM".

"This dangerous context, exacerbated by an unprecedented socio-political and economic crisis, has been compounded by government efforts to selectively restrict the access of certain journalists, and state advertising [public funds] has continued to be used as leverage against critical media, reinforcing self-censorship and keeping the press under constant threat," the organization lamented. The most notable case is that of Radio Mega, one of the country's most influential stations, deliberately targeted and boycotted by the highest authorities.

SL/ HaitiLibre