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Weekly Report - 31 October 2024 (WR-24-43)
GUATEMALA: High-profile jailed journalist moved to house arrest
“Justice is beginning to arrive, the dark cycle is going to end.” This was the response by Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo to a judge’s decision to transfer José Rubén Zamora, a prominent journalist and founder of investigative daily elPeriódico, to house arrest after more than 800 days behind bars. Detained in 2022, Zamora was sentenced in June 2023 on money laundering charges widely considered to have been trumped up [WR-23-25]. As a leading critic of the discredited attorney general, María Consuelo Porras, her ally, former president Alejandro Giammattei (2020-2024), and others associated with the ‘pacto de corruptos’ network of institutional corruption, Zamora’s case has drawn close scrutiny. It is widely viewed as emblematic of the dismantling of press freedoms and democratic institutions which ensued under Giammattei, and which Arévalo is seeking to reverse.
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