Guatemala - Whistle-blowing journalist accused of using drugs by local security committee

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Lucía Escobar, the head of the radio station Radio Ati in the town of Panajachel, in the Sololá department of south-western Guatemala, accused the town's security committee on 27 October of being behind threats she has received since she published an opinion piece in the newspaper elPeriódico. Her article drew attention to the involvement of several members of the committee in the disappearance of a young man two weeks ago as well as in “social cleansing” carried out by the urban militia, in (...)

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