Journalist says his detention removed Guatemala's 'mask of democracy'
Jose Ruben Zamora was arrested in July 2022 after his now-shuttered newspaper reported on graft allegations involving the government of former right-wing president Alejandro Giammattei. The 68-year-old spent more than 800 days behind bars, accused of money laundering and blackmail, before he was freed from prison on October 19. Today he remains under house arrest awaiting a retrial, and faces another accusation from prosecutors of obstruction of justice. "You had a klepto-narco dictatorship disguised as a democracy... Читать дальше...