Zamora’s Sentence Hits Guatemalan Journalism Just Ahead of General Election

Central America in Minutes
20/06/2023 9 min

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Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora was convicted to six years of prison for money laundering this Wednesday in Guatemala. It’s the outcome of a tilted process where Zamora never appeared to have a chance. Investigative journalism reference media elPeriodico, the newspaper he founded 27 years ago, was forced to close one month ago.

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