Indigenous Journalist Shot Dead in Guatemala

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Guatemala City, Guatemala. An indigenous journalist was shot to death in northern Guatemala for unexplained reasons so far, the police and a press union in that country reported Monday. Carlos Cal, 45, was attacked on Sunday night in a street in the municipality of San Cristóbal Verapaz (80 kilometers north of Guatemala City) and received five shots, according to a police report provided to the AFP. This crime “adds to a panorama” of “aggression…

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Guatemalan journalist Carlos Humberto Cal Ical was killed in a shooting attack in Guatemala area considered especially dangerous to the press, reported official sources and the journalistic union, which demanded "an exhaustive investigation" of the case. ...

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By Edwin Gua. Soy502_Latin American Summary April 27, 2026. IN CONTEXT: Guatemalan journalist dies in armed attack The press union and civil society are in mourning after the tragic death of Carlos Humberto Cal Ical, prominent social communicator with a trajectory of more than a quarter of a century, who was the victim of a direct armed attack on [...] La entrada Guatemala. Carlos, the communicator who was killed in Alta Verapaz was first publis…