{"id":21802,"date":"2011-10-31T19:40:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamjournalismreview.org\/articles\/guatemalan-journalist-receives-threats-after-reporting-on-forced-disappearances\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T19:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T00:40:07","slug":"guatemalan-journalist-receives-threats-after-reporting-on-forced-disappearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamjournalismreview.org\/es\/articles\/guatemalan-journalist-receives-threats-after-reporting-on-forced-disappearances\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemalan journalist receives threats after reporting on forced disappearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalan journalist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturaguatemalteca.org\/luciaescobar.htm\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luc\u00eda Escobar<\/a>\u00a0received\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ipys.org\/?q=noticia\/942\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threats from members of a local security committee<\/a>\u00a0after publishing an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elperiodico.com.gt\/es\/20111019\/lacolumna\/202450\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article on the forced disappearance of a young person<\/a>\u00a0in the tourist town of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panajachel\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panajachel<\/a>, in the western part of the country, reported the Press and Society Institute (IPYS in Spanish).<\/p>\n<p>Security committees, explained IPYS, are neighborhood organizations that often overstep their authority tyrannize the people they're assigned to protect.<\/p>\n<p>Escobar wrote that there were 30 complaints against the \"hooded ones\" for crimes ranging from abuse of authority, torture and kidnapping, to assassinations, social cleansing and summary executions. The news site Plaza P\u00fablica\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plazapublica.com.gt\/content\/la-impunidad-de-los-encapuchados-de-panajachel\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported that a paramilitary group known as the \"hooded ones\" was at the root of these crimes<\/a>\u00a0and enjoys impunity for its actions.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the allegations, Juan Manuel Ral\u00f3n of the accused security committee sought to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elperiodico.com.gt\/es\/20111029\/opinion\/202881\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discredit the journalist<\/a>\u00a0on Canal 10 television, accusing her of using and trafficking drugs, reported the newspaper elPeri\u00f3dico, where the original article was published.<\/p>\n<p>\"If the next person to sleep at the bottom of the world's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Atitl%C3%A1n\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most beautiful lake<\/a>\u00a0with stones tied to her body is me, you'll know who to blame,\" wrote the reporter and host for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioati.com\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Ati<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalan journalist\u00a0Luc\u00eda Escobar\u00a0received\u00a0threats from members of a local security committee\u00a0after publishing an\u00a0article on the forced disappearance of a young person\u00a0in the tourist town of\u00a0Panajachel, in the western part of the country, reported the Press and Society Institute (IPYS in Spanish).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.6 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Guatemalan journalist receives threats after reporting on forced disappearances - LatAm Journalism Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guatemalan journalist receives threats after reporting on forced disappearances . 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