La Epoca
TypeWeekly newspaper
EditorByron Barrera[1]
Staff writersJulio Godoy,[1] Haroldo Shetumul,[1] and others
FoundedFebruary 26, 1988 (1988-February-26)[2]
Political alignmentLiberal[3]
LanguageSpanish
Ceased publicationJune 10, 1988 (1988-June-10)[2]
HeadquartersGuatemala City[4]

La Epoca was a liberal weekly newspaper that operated in Guatemala for four months in 1988.[5] In June, its offices were firebombed, and its senior staff fled the country.[6] The office of La Epoca was destroyed by Guatemalan government backed terrorists for their criticism of the government. One year after the firebombing, La Epoca journalist Julio Godoy wrote of the U.S. support of the Guatemalan government:

"while the Moscow imposed government in Prague would degrade and humiliate reformers, the Washington made government in Guatemala would kill them. It still does, in a virtual genocide that has taken more than 150,000 victims (in what Amnesty International calls) a government program of political murder."[7]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Simon 1988, p. 112.
  2. 1 2 Simon 1988, p. 111.
  3. ↑ Simon 1988, p. 14.
  4. ↑ Painter, James (September 1987), Guatemala: False Hope, False Freedom - The Rich, the Poor and the Christian Democrats, Catholic Institute for International Relations, Latin America Bureau, p. 116, ISBN 0-906156-31-9
  5. ↑ Perera 1989, p. 19.
  6. ↑ Simon 1988, pp. 111–112.
  7. ↑ How the World Works, Noam Chomsky, Soft Skull Press, page 38,39

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