Periodistas Mujeres Amenazadas en Ecuador: Retos y Resiliencia

Journalism in Latin America is practiced today under conditions of extreme adversity. In a region shaken by profound political transformations, structural inequalities, and growing systemic violence—where, as Aguiar Mariño (2014) analyzes, "drug trafficking has generated parallel power structures that replace the State in marginalized territories"—communicators face unprecedented challenges: from criminalization to unpunished murder. Threatened. The future of journalism in Latin America thus emerges as a collective exercise of diagnosis and resistance; a mosaic of voices documenting both the threats and the innovative ways in which the profession persists, reinvents itself, and defends its place as a democratic pillar. This work, born within the Communication program at the Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, integrates three fundamental pillars of contemporary communicative practice: the analytical rigor of academic research, the forcefulness of journalistic testimonies, and the pressing urgency of political proposals. This triple perspective allows us to decipher the multiple layers of the Latin American journalistic ecosystem, where censorship mechanisms oscillate between raw violence and the most insidious forms of control. With a dialectical approach, the work goes beyond merely documenting repression: by unveiling the power structures that stifle journalistic practice, it simultaneously celebrates the resistance practices emerging from marginalized communities and forced exile, defying the barriers imposed on freedom of expression.