UNFree Media: Honduras

Police surveillance in Tegucigalpa. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

By Ela Stapley

Five journalists were targeted and killed last month in Honduras. The country is now one of the world's most dangerous places to be a reporter. What lies behind the attacks and what is the future for journalism in one of the most violent countries in Latin America?

On March 26, José Alemán, a reporter for Diario Tiempo and Radio América, received a threatening phone call warning him that he was being "looked for". Later that day armed men broke into his house. He was not home but they caught up with him in the street. He managed to flee down an ally and get to a police station, local media reports. After police told him they could not protect him he left the country.