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Lawyer for jailed Guatemalan news director is arrested

Por: ABC News World January 20, 2023

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GUATEMALA CITY -- Guatemalan authorities arrested a lawyer representing the jailed director of an investigative newspaper Thursday and pursued a second lawyer for alleged obstruction of justice.José Rubén Zamora of El Periodico was ordered to stand trial on money laundering charges in December related to a 2013 donation to his newspaper that he asked a friend to deposit to hide the donor’s identity.Zamora and his paper had aggressively... + full article



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