“International Journalists' Day is celebrated this Sept. 8, in honor of the Czech-Slovak journalist and writer Julius Fucik, author of the emblematic Report at the Foot of the Gallows who was arrested and executed in Berlin by the Gestapo in 1943, in Nazi Germany dominated by Adolf Hitler.
Eight decades later, in Guatemala, journalist José Rubén Zamora, editor of El Periódico, one of the contemporary heroes of press freedom, has served 765 days of arbitrary detention for investigating and denouncing corruption, while in Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela, the independent press has been criminalized and is exercised mainly from exile.
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In the program Esta Semana, which is broadcasted on CONFIDENCIAL's YouTube channel because of censorship in Nicaragua, we talked with journalists Luz Mely Reyes, director of Efecto Cocuyo from Venezuela, and Carlos Manuel Álvarez, director of El Estornudo from Cuba, to learn how journalism survives under the dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, and what are their main challenges to continue doing quality journalism."
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