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Guatemala: “Threatened for Reporting the Truth”

Categories: Latin America, Guatemala, Freedom of Speech, Media & Journalism

“I denounced the activities of a masked group of vigilantes who were terrorizing the local population at night. It wasn’t the first time I had written about their crimes, but this time I named names.”

Anna-Claire Bevan in LatinaLista [1] quotes Guatemalan journalist Lucia Escobar, who was “forced into hiding last October after she wrote an opinion piece in the national newspaper El Periodico about a social cleansing group operating in her hometown of Panajachel, 150 kilometres from Guatemala City.”