It’s the worse classification among Latin American countries with allegedly democratic governments.

The study, which also includes Canada and the United States, is based on reports by the national press on real cases involving journalists and the attitude of officials and civil society figures on the flow of information.

It affirms that in the Caribbean, Dominican Republic falls in rank resulting from a high index of violence, harassment and abusive procedures against the media. It states that without having the same amplitude, those two factors, in addition to measures of administrative censorship and the incarceration of a journalist it didn’t identity, led to the lower rating.