La Epoca
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|name =La Epoca
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|type =Weekly newspaper
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|editor =Byron Barrera{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=112}}
|staff =Julio Godoy,{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=112}} Haroldo Shetumul,{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=112}} and others
|foundation ={{Start date|1988|02|26}}{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=111}}
|political =Liberal{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=14}}
|language =Spanish
|ceased publication={{End date|1988|06|10}}{{sfn|Simon|1988|p=111}}
|headquarters =Guatemala City{{Citation |last=Painter |first=James |date=September 1987 |title=Guatemala: False Hope, False Freedom - The Rich, the Poor and the Christian Democrats |publisher=Catholic Institute for International Relations, Latin America Bureau |isbn=0-906156-31-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/guatemalafalseho0000pain/page/116 116] |url=https://archive.org/details/guatemalafalseho0000pain/page/116 }}
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La Epoca was a liberal weekly newspaper that operated in Guatemala for four months in 1988.{{sfn|Perera|1989|p=19}} In June, its offices were firebombed, and its senior staff fled the country.{{sfn|Simon|1988|pp=111–112}} 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
See also
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References
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- {{Citation |last=Perera |first=Victor |date=February–March 1989 |title=War of Words |work=Mother Jones |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=19–21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19 |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Simon |first=Jean-Marie |date=November 1988 |title=Closing the space: Human rights in Guatemala, May 1987-October 1988 |location=New York |publisher=Americas Watch |isbn=0-929692-08-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsIOg4Zu9HUC |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
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Further reading
- {{Citation |last=Hood |first=Lucy |date=23 June 1988 |title=JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE: Guatemala: free press bubble bursts |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=I-9 |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0623/omala.html |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Hood |first=Lucy |date=26 June 1988 |title=Guatemala rightists target leftist press |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |page=A-36 |id={{Factiva|SDU0000020070701dk6q00g6p}}}}
- {{Citation |last=Kinzer |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Kinzer |date=6 July 1988 |title=Top Guatemala Officers Solidly Behind President |work=The New York Times |id={{Factiva|NYTF000020050426dk7600kcy}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/06/world/top-guatemala-officers-solidly-behind-president.html |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Mulvaney |first=Jim |date=19 December 1988 |title=REPORT FROM GUATEMALA Battling Suspicions of Democracy |work=Newsday |page=13}}
- {{Citation |last=Cockburn |first=Alexander |authorlink=Alexander Cockburn |date=2 March 1989 |title=Viewpoint: Zealots Defending Rushdie Ignored Less-Popular Outrages |work=The Wall Street Journal |id={{Factiva|j000000020011116dl32008cl}}}}
- {{Citation |last=Span |first=Paula |date=8 May 1989 |title=Reflecting on The Nieman Years; Harvard's Reunion of Journalism's Best |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=b01 |id={{Factiva|wp00000020011117dl5800owv}}}}
- {{Citation |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |authorlink=Noam Chomsky |year=1989 |title=Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies |publisher=South End Press |isbn=0-89608-366-7 |pages=124–125, 332, 378}}
- {{Citation |last=Godoy |first=Julio |date=February–March 1990 |title=Nowhere at Home |work=Mother Jones |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=16, 19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-cDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16 |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Stone |first=Maria |date=18 October 1990 |title=Journalist's murder has highlighted activities of military-backed death squads |work=The Guardian |page=17 |id={{Factiva|grdn000020011128dmai00leh}}}}
- {{Citation |last=Black |first=George |date=11 November 1990 |title=COLUMN LEFT: A Hellish Life in 'Democratic' Guatemala: In this version of a capitalistic economy, the army always wins--whoever is elected |work=Los Angeles Times |page=M-7 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-11-op-5960-story.html |access-date=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Solomon |first=Joel |date=20 November 1990 |title=Dateline Terror: Death squads stalk Guatemala journalists |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=19 |id={{Factiva|chsm000020011120dmbk003ud}}}}
- {{Citation |author=Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |year=1991 |title=Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights, 1988 |location=Dordrecht |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=0-7923-1264-3 |pages=436–439}}
- {{Citation |last=Barry |first=Tom |year=1991 |title=Central America inside out: the essential guide to its societies, politics, and economies |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=0-8021-1135-1 |page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4wFHXjkA28C&pg=PA255 |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
- {{Citation |last=Smeets |first=Marylene |date=11 August 1999 |title=Speaking Out: Postwar Journalism in Guatemala and El Salvador |work=Committee to Protect Journalists Special Reports |url=http://www.cpj.org/reports/1999/08/guatemala11august99.php |accessdate=11 June 2011}}
External links
- {{YouTube|7yszF0i6fAE|Noam Chomsky on Manufacturing Consent (Part 6)}}
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