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A recent video feature published by LatAm Journalism Review highlights the experiences of journalists forced into exile from their home countries — notably El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — as they confront entrenched authoritarianism while continuing to cover issues of repression and abuse.
The piece underscores three compelling narratives: one journalist who endured a sustained smear campaign, another who was reportedly subject to an arrest warrant, and a third whose newsroom was twice raided and forced to shut down. These stories illustrate how independent media outlets in the region are dismantled by pressure from governments determined to silence dissent.
In Nicaragua, the exile of independent journalists is part of an ongoing wave of repression since 2018. Journalists fleeing the Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime described confiscation of media outlets, arrests, and criminalisation of journalistic work as the impetus for their departure. Similarly, in Venezuela and El Salvador, the feature highlights how reporting on state abuses or corruption triggers government retaliation, forcing journalists to continue their work from abroad while navigating statelessness, legal limbo, or the loss of press infrastructure at home.
The video argues that exile should not be viewed as silence: rather, these journalists continue to generate investigative journalism, maintain editorial networks, and amplify stories that would otherwise disappear. Yet exile also brings new challenges: loss of local access, threats from afar, economic precarity, and the constant risk of further targeting by authoritarian regimes.
From a broader perspective, the report serves as a case study of how diminishing press freedom and rising authoritarian controls in Latin America are driving the migration of journalists rather than simply shutting down their voices. It raises urgent questions about how the global media community and supporting institutions can better protect exiled journalists, sustain independent media in diaspora, and ensure that vital reporting from these regions continues.
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