La Epoca was a liberal weekly newspaper that operated in Guatemala for four months in 1988.[5] In June, its offices were firebombed, and its senior staff fled the country.[6] The office of La Epoca was destroyed by Guatemalan government backed terrorists for their criticism of the government. One year after the firebombing, La Epoca journalist Julio Godoy wrote of the U.S. support of the Guatemalan government:
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Editor | Byron Barrera[1] |
| Staff writers | Julio Godoy,[1] Haroldo Shetumul,[1] and others |
| Founded | February 26, 1988[2] |
| Political alignment | Liberal[3] |
| Language | Spanish |
| Ceased publication | June 10, 1988[2] |
| Headquarters | Guatemala City[4] |
- "while the Moscow imposed government in Prague would degrade and humiliate reformers, the Washington made government in Guatemala would kill them. It still does, in a virtual genocide that has taken more than 150,000 victims (in what Amnesty International calls) a government program of political murder."[7]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ a b c Simon 1988, p. 112.
- ^ a b Simon 1988, p. 111.
- ^ Simon 1988, p. 14.
- ^ Painter, James (September 1987), Guatemala: False Hope, False Freedom - The Rich, the Poor and the Christian Democrats, Catholic Institute for International Relations, Latin America Bureau, p. 116, ISBN 0-906156-31-9
- ^ Perera 1989, p. 19.
- ^ Simon 1988, pp. 111–112.
- ^ How the World Works, Noam Chomsky, Soft Skull Press, page 38,39
References
edit- Perera, Victor (February–March 1989), "War of Words", Mother Jones, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 19–21, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Simon, Jean-Marie (November 1988), Closing the space: Human rights in Guatemala, May 1987-October 1988, New York: Americas Watch, ISBN 0-929692-08-X, retrieved 11 June 2011
Further reading
edit- Hood, Lucy (23 June 1988), "JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE: Guatemala: free press bubble bursts", The Christian Science Monitor, p. I-9, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Hood, Lucy (26 June 1988), "Guatemala rightists target leftist press", The San Diego Union-Tribune, p. A-36, Factiva SDU0000020070701dk6q00g6p
- Kinzer, Stephen (6 July 1988), "Top Guatemala Officers Solidly Behind President", The New York Times, Factiva NYTF000020050426dk7600kcy, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Mulvaney, Jim (19 December 1988), "REPORT FROM GUATEMALA Battling Suspicions of Democracy", Newsday, p. 13
- Cockburn, Alexander (2 March 1989), "Viewpoint: Zealots Defending Rushdie Ignored Less-Popular Outrages", The Wall Street Journal, Factiva j000000020011116dl32008cl
- Span, Paula (8 May 1989), "Reflecting on The Nieman Years; Harvard's Reunion of Journalism's Best", The Washington Post, p. b01, Factiva wp00000020011117dl5800owv
- Chomsky, Noam (1989), Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, South End Press, pp. 124–125, 332, 378, ISBN 0-89608-366-7
- Godoy, Julio (February–March 1990), "Nowhere at Home", Mother Jones, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 16, 19, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Stone, Maria (18 October 1990), "Journalist's murder has highlighted activities of military-backed death squads", The Guardian, p. 17, Factiva grdn000020011128dmai00leh
- Black, George (11 November 1990), "COLUMN LEFT: A Hellish Life in 'Democratic' Guatemala: In this version of a capitalistic economy, the army always wins--whoever is elected", Los Angeles Times, p. M-7, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Solomon, Joel (20 November 1990), "Dateline Terror: Death squads stalk Guatemala journalists", The Christian Science Monitor, p. 19, Factiva chsm000020011120dmbk003ud
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (1991), Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1988, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, pp. 436–439, ISBN 0-7923-1264-3
- Barry, Tom (1991), Central America inside out: the essential guide to its societies, politics, and economies, Grove Press, p. 255, ISBN 0-8021-1135-1, retrieved 11 June 2011
- Smeets, Marylene (11 August 1999), "Speaking Out: Postwar Journalism in Guatemala and El Salvador", Committee to Protect Journalists Special Reports, retrieved 11 June 2011
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