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El Metropolitano, based in Mixco; published twice each month [7] Nuestro Diario, the most widely circulated newspaper in Central America [8] El Periódico [9] Publinews, the first free daily in Guatemala [10] El Quetzalteco, based in Quetzaltenango; digital only and part of Prensa Libre [11] [12] El Siglo [13] Siglo Veintiuno [14] La Voz del ...
On April 23 the organization helped 41 migrants return to El Salvador from Mexico. [16] On April 26, Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) empties the 65 migrant detention centers it has across the country by returning 3,653 people to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in the hope of preventing outbreaks of COVID-19. [17]
One year later, it was purchased by the owners of Prensa Libre, Guatemala's best-selling newspaper. [ 1 ] In 2001, the Periódico offices were attacked by a group of fifty protesters after reporting on alleged corruption in the staff of Communications Minister Luis Rabbé .
José Rubén Zamora Marroquín (born August 19, 1956 [1]) is an industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and the founder of three Guatemalan newspapers: Siglo Veintiuno ("21st Century") in 1990, El Periódico ("The Newspaper") in 1996, and Nuestro Diario ("Our Daily") in 1998. He has been threatened and attacked on several occasions for his work ...
[30] [31] [32] His second book, El Festival de la Blasfemia (The Festival of Blasphemy) was released in 2016, "a short story of terror, narrated from the black humor characteristic of Dross", [33] [34] a sequel to his first book, Luna de Plutón II: La guerra de Ysaak (Pluto's moon 2: The war of Ysaak), was released in March 2017.
Prensa Libre is a Guatemalan newspaper published in Guatemala City by Prensa Libre, S.A. and distributed nationwide. It was formerly the most widely circulated newspaper in the country and as of 2007 it has the second-widest circulation. [1] It is considered a newspaper of record. It was founded in 1951.
On November 21, 2020, protests began in Guatemala City and several other parts of the country in response to the passing of a controversial budget bill by Congress in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of Hurricanes Eta and Iota. More than 7,000 protesters gathered in the capital city to demonstrate against the bill, which ...
Zamora and other staff members were attacked several times in connection with their reporting. In 1995, Zamora's car was driven off the road by two people who threatened to kill him for publishing allegations in Siglo Veintiuno that the military of Guatemala had links to organized crime. In May 1996, attackers drove past his parked car ...