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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. The billionaire Mario López Estrada was ...
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]
One year later, it was purchased by the owners of Prensa Libre, Guatemala's best-selling newspaper. 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. The crowd attempted to force the building's doors and set it on fire, and ...
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 ...
Isabel Gutiérrez de Bosch (aunt) Juan Luis Bosch Gutiérrez (cousin) Felipe Bosch Gutiérrez (cousin) Website. www.dionisiogutierrez.gt. Dionisio Gutiérrez Mayorga [1] (born 23 July 1959) is a Guatemalan businessman and media personality. He is currently the President of Fundación Libertad y Desarrollo. [2]
The La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16, 2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala ( Spanish: Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) and State prosecutors accused a number of politicians in the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina of setting up a customs ...
List of journalists killed in Guatemala. Guatemala is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and media workers in Latin America. [1] [2] At least 342 journalists were murdered and 126 were disappeared or illegally arrested during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996). [2] [3] On average, that would calculate to one attack each ...
v. t. e. General elections were held in Guatemala on 9 September to elect a new President and Vice President of the Republic, 158 congressional deputies, and 332 mayors. As no presidential candidate received a majority of the vote, a second round was held on 4 November. Colom was elected President of Guatemala.