Reporters Without Borders (RSF), along with seven international organizations, visited Honduras in October and warned about the harassment and surveillance suffered by journalists, as well as the impunity surrounding the cases in which they are involved.

According to the World Press Freedom Index compiled by RSF in 2025, Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries in the Americas for practicing journalism.

According to the National Commissioner for Human Rights (CONADEH), more than 100 people linked to the media have been murdered since 2001 to date; of those cases, only a dozen have resulted in a sentence.

In June of this year, journalists Hercules Salinas and Carlos Gilberto Aguirre were murdered; their cases remain unpunished, and the motive for the murders has not been clarified.

The organization Voces del Sur, in its 2024 report “Journalism, violence and persecution”, ranked Honduras as the country with the most murders against the press in Latin America and documented 123 alerts of violence against journalists.

Reporters Without Borders has found that in the lead-up to the November 30th election, journalists have reported an increase in harassment on social media and restrictions on the coverage of political events.

There have also been reported cases in which high-ranking military officers and public officials have used the judicial system to sue journalists and media outlets investigating matters of public interest for defamation.

All these actions create an atmosphere of fear and censorship within the country and limit journalistic work in the lead-up to the presidential elections in Honduras.