Guatemala

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007
Posted September 7, 2007

Radio Nuevo Mundo
ATTACKED

An unidentified individual fired a gunshot into the offices of the Guatemala City-based Radio Nuevo Mundo in the afternoon of September 4, the station’s director Marbin Robledo told CPJ. No one was injured.

August 27, 2007
POSTED September 12, 2007

Edwin David Hernández, Star Chanel
HARASSED

Hernández, cameraman for the news program “Noti Star” on national cable channel Star Chanel, was held for more than three hours by protesters in the central Baja Verapaz province, he told CPJ.

New York, May 4, 2007—Veteran Guatemalan radio producer Mario Rolando López Sánchez was gunned down outside his home in Guatemala City yesterday. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether López’ murder is related to his professional work.

López, producer of the political debate program “Cosas y Casos de la Vida Nacional” and various social programs on national privately-owned Radio Sonora, was shot at 7 p.m. as he was walking from his car to his home in a northern neighborhood in Guatemala City, according to local press reports and CPJ interviews.

New York, May 4, 2007—Veteran Guatemalan radio producer Mario Rolando López Sánchez was gunned down outside his home in Guatemala City yesterday. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether López’ murder is related to his professional work.

López, producer of the political debate program “Cosas y Casos de la Vida Nacional” and various social programs on national privately-owned Radio Sonora, was shot at 7 p.m. as he was walking from his car to his home in a northern neighborhood in Guatemala City, according to local press reports and CPJ interviews.

New York, April 26, 2007—Guatemalan television journalist Rudy Toledo was shot and wounded, and three other local reporters were attacked Wednesday while covering a mob’s fatal attack on a purported gang member in the northeastern province of Quiché.

A group of about 100 people shot and burned an individual believed to be a member of the local gang Mara 18 in the town of San Andrés Sajcabajá, 62 miles (100 kilometers) northeast of Guatemala City, The Associated Press reported. According to Guatemalan press reports, two other men are still being held by the crowd of local residents.

MARCH 2, 2007
Posted: April 2, 2007

Guatavisión
THREATENED

Erick Salazar, news director for the program “Guatavisión,” aired on the national television station by the same name, reported that unidentified individuals threatened the program’s reporters with death if they continued to report on the political scandal that followed the murder of three Salvadoran congressmen and their driver in Guatemala. Reporters from at least one print outlet and two radios reported receiving similar threats, according to press reports.

FEBRUARY 9, 2007
Posted February 21, 2007

Carlos Alberto Morales, Radio Ángel
THREATENED

Morales, a reporter for the San Antonio Huista-based Radio Ángel, told CPJ he was threatened with death by the local mayor after reporting on local government corruption.

FEBRUARY 3, 2007
Posted February 6, 2007

Wilder Jordán, Nuestro Diario
ATTACKED

Jordán, correspondent for the Guatemala City-based daily Nuestro Diario in the eastern Zacapa province, told CPJ that an unidentified individual aboard a motorcycle shot several times at his unoccupied car. Jordán, who was not injured, believes the attack was retaliation for an article on the death of a local man.