A Guatemalan columnist received death threats against her and her family after denouncing the sexual abuse of girls in a cotton plantation, Cerigua reported.
Columnist and editor of supplements at the daily Prensa Libre, Carolina Vásquez Araya, received a message that said “we’re going to tear your family apart, we’re going to deliver them to you in a cotton sack.”
In her column, Vásquez mentioned the investigations of journalist Ilka Oliva on the owner of a plantation that sexually abused the daughters of his employees. Oliva was born in that plantation but currently resides in the United States. Oliva also received threatening messages on her e-mail, according to her blog.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
