The press in the Americas registered this week an unprecedented attack by armed gang members in Ecuador who broke into the live signal of the station TC Television of Guayaquil, beat, threatened and held hostage journalists and other workers of the channel. Communicator José Luis Calderón had guns pointed at his head and then a stick of dynamite was placed in his clothes. The serious incident occurred in the midst of other attacks and kidnappings in various parts of the country.
In Colombia, three journalists of
Noticias Caracol reported being harassed by an ex-military officer, who even waited for them outside the vicinity of the television channel to intimidate them.
Finally, in Guatemala, Judge Aurora Gutiérrez closed the criminal case against six elPeriódico journalists who had been accused of publishing "malicious information". Gutiérrez determined that the jurisdiction of the case corresponds to a printing court. José Rubén Zamora, founder of the newspaper, has been detained since July 2022.
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