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IAPA President: "There is no free society without freedom of expression"

Earl Maucker, the President of the IAPA, will leave his post at the end of the Assembly (Photo: Manuel de León / Efe)

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The president of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), Earl Maucker, said on Monday that "no society can be free without a free press," at the inauguration of the 64th General Assembly of the IAPA in Madrid.

"We want everyone to understand the meaning of freedom of expression and freedom of speech and what it implies to achieve one's aspirations," the editor of the South Florida's newspaper Sun Sentinel said.

"Our task is to allow citizens access to the right to knowledge," Maucker said. For the president of IAPA, this task is facing a "complex enemy" such as "violence and crime and the enemy behind censorship." 


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