The imprisonment of journalists is among the bluntest tactics used by autocrats and corrupt leaders to assert control over the news and information space and to shield themselves from scrutiny.
in the International Fund for Public Interest Media, a new media-development organization co-chaired by the Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Mark Thompson, a former C.E.O. of the New York Times Company. Despite criticism over the lack of concrete commitments from participating governments, the Administration saw the first summit as having delivered on a key campaign commitment.
The feeling of vulnerability among Guatemalan journalists is compounded by an increasing legal and economic pressure on independent media generally. Guatemala’s main television stations are controlled by a single person, the billionaire Mexican businessman Remigio Ángel González, who has made the stations into mouthpieces for the government.recently ceased publication of its print edition.
In our conversation, Zamora described the U.S. as both an empire and a democracy that, despite this paradox, often demonstrated bipartisan support for democracy promotion. He contends that that consensus collapsed whenand his allies in the Republican Party stopped supporting democratic development overseas. Biden and other Democrats, Zamora said, have now lost their taste for administering the empire, at least as it relates to Latin America.
Leaders like Giammattei, meanwhile, have exploited Washington’s deepening partisan division. After he was not invited to the first Summit for Democracy, Giammattei travelled to Washington, D.C., and spoke at the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. He pronounced Guatemala the “pro-life capital of Ibero America,” and stressed his government’s role in advancing U.S. strategic interest through support for Taiwan and Israel in international forums.
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