GUATEMALA

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GUATEMALA WHEREAS two journalists - Jorge Luis Marroquin Martínez, editor of the regional newspaper Sol Chortf, and radio reporter Norman Homero Hernández Pérez - were murdered the body of Pedro Pérez Rosales, who disappeared last February, has been found and identified that harassment of the media continues, as in the case of Radio Centroamericana, which was raided on several occasions the government promotes discriminatory treatment against some independent media in the placement of offieial advertising, and uses the offieial news rogram "Avances" to attack and attempt to discredit the independent press THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE lAPA RESOLVES to express its serious concern to the president of the Republic about the current climate of insecurity the press faces in carrying out its work and to ask him to provide the necessary guarantees to offer our tribute and recognition to families of the murdered journalists to demand that the government and its judicial agencies investigate the murders so that they do not go unpunished to communicate to the president its rejection of media harassment and the discriminatory treatment in the placement of official advertising, demanding an end to these actions.

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