Terror against journalists and freedom of expression

Jos Cancinos

The persecution, criminalisation, penalisation and even imprisonment of journalists and media employees by the regime of Alejandro Giammattei through its operator, the Public Prosecutor’s Office led by prosecutor Consuelo Porras, and supported by judges, personalities and organizations in favor of impunity, has led international community organizations to conclude that it is terrible to practice journalism in the country.

The terror they have instilled against journalists and press freedom has forced many journalists in the departments outside the capital city to refrain from carrying out investigative journalism in the institutions that make up the entire state apparatus.

With such action, the Gimmattei regime is violating Article 35 of the Political Constitution on Freedom of Thought, as well as Article 46, which states that treaties and conventions accepted and ratified by Guatemala take precedence over domestic law. Guatemala ratified Article 19 of the Universal