Leila Miller writes in the Los Angeles Times about a particular use of lawfare in obstructing journalists in their work uncovering corruption – the law to protect violence against women. It was a landmark piece of legislation for Guatemala: a… Read More ›
Journalists
Working in fear
Gildaneliz Barrientos writes on the D+C Development and Cooperation website about the challenges facing journalists in Guatemala including murder, threats and acts of intimidation. This is compounded by the lack of protection from the police. In what is unfortunately a… Read More ›
Reporting on corruption proves deadly in Guatemala
Louisa Reynolds writes in Al Jazeera America of the recent murderous attacks on journalists in Guatemala which left three dead. At the beginning of March, Danilo López, a correspondent for Guatemala’s largest national newspaper, Prensa Libre, and Federico Salazar, a… Read More ›