''La Epoca'' was a liberal
weekly newspaper
A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...
that operated in
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
for four months in 1988. In June, its offices were firebombed, and its senior staff fled the country. 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."
[How the World Works, Noam Chomsky, Soft Skull Press, page 38,39]
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List of newspapers in Guatemala
This is a list of newspapers in Guatemala.
Newspapers
*'' Prensa Libre'', the second-most widely circulated newspaper in Guatemala
*Al Día'
*Noticias Guatemala'
*'' Diario de Centro América'', the nation's newspaper of public record
*La Hora' ...
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Newspapers published in Guatemala
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