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Podcast: Guatemalan Newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora Released from Prison at Last

AFP
AFP

Friday, October 25, 2024
Roman Gressier


CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 1: After spending 813 days in prison and facing a slate of procedural irregularities, leading Guatemalan newspaperman Jose Rubén Zamora will await retrial under house arrest.

In El Salvador, the anti-mining environmentalists known as the ‘Santa Marta Five’ are vindicated as a judge dismisses the case against them mounted by the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office.

With under two weeks until the U.S. election, Alianza Américas executive director Dulce Guzmán warns of the effects of the rightward swing of U.S. immigration politics for Central American diaspora communities.

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