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They find the body of a Guatemalan journalist on an abandoned lot
Guatemala City.- The lifeless body of Guatemalan journalist Jorge Zapeta, who had been missing since last Sunday, was found in an abandoned lot in the southwest of the Central American country, according to official sources confirmed this Wednesday.
Authorities are investigating the case to determine the circumstances of the communicator’s death, according to local media.
Zapeta’s body was found on an abandoned lot in the department (province) of Suchitepéquez, located about 150 kilometers southwest of Guatemala City.
The Guatemalan Journalists Association (APG), of which Zapeta was a member, expressed in a press release its repudiation of the crime and demanded that the authorities find those responsible for the alleged homicide.
Zapeta, 56 years old, had been missing since last Sunday and according to local media, the cause of death was due to blows to the chest.
The journalistic guild added that, according to the communicator’s family, Zapeta had received death threats during the current year.
The journalist worked on a local online page in Suchitepéquez and had more than two decades of experience in his profession.
Last March, another Guatemalan journalist, Ismael Alonzo González, was shot dead in the department of Quetzaltenango, in the west of the Central American country.
In addition to Zapeta and Alonzo, at least four other journalists have been murdered in Guatemala in the last three years.
The country presided over by Bernardo Arévalo de León has one of the weakest judicial systems in the region, and more than 90 percent of the homicides recorded in its territory go unpunished, according to official calculations and international organizations.
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