The son of prominent Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora renews attention to his father's case as the family fights for his freedom a year after his imprisonment.
, José Carlos said."These investigations ultimately cause the State to fabricate a case against my father."shut down its print editionShutting down the newspaper was one of the goals the Guatemalan government was looking to accomplish as well as punishing his father for exposing Giammattei's regime, José Carlos said.
For José Carlos, this"has been a very open political persecution of press freedom that has deprived Guatemalans of being well informed and demand to have decent leaders.” Considering the U.S. and Guatemala have been looking to work together to curb immigration to the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. not being tougher on the country's anti-democratic issues sends mixed messages to the Guatemalan government, José Carlos said.
"I don't think the next administration wants to inherit this," he said, adding that new candidates have worked to position themselves as the solution to restore Guatemala's eroding democracy.
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