Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Martín Rodríguez Pellecer is editor-in-chief of Plaza Pública (www.plazapublica.com.gt), a website that investigates the relationship between politics, economics and organised crime. He was a reporter from 2001 to 2007 in the Guatemalan daily Prensa Libre, and is a columnist at the newspaper elPeriódico.
Guatemala’s elite, which has tried since 1996 to engage in politics to ensure that democracy produces conservatism...