Despite a return to democracy in a region scarred by military regimes in the 1970s and 1980s, many Latin American governments have yet to embrace full media freedom and are using state resources as a carrot and stick to buy positive coverage, according to a new report.

”This is the new censorship. It’s what’s replacing the old repression,” says Darian Pavli, a legal advisor at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York, which produced ”The Price of Silence” in conjunction with Argentina’s Association for Civil Rights (ADC).