By Lorena Arroyo (El País)
Visiting José Rubén Zamora involves crossing three military checkpoints, climbing a path in the forest under the watchful eye of soldiers stationed in their booths and holding out your arm to have a stamp placed on it.
This mark allows you to pass a penultimate fence facing the cell in which the most illustrious journalist in the contemporary history of Guatemala has been languishing for 569 days.
Icon par excellence of what was once called the “fourth power”, Zamora is guarded by six agents – sometimes there were even eight – in a cramped room equipped with a bunk bed, a table, chairs, numerous books, some photos of loved ones and a bathroom.
It is there, in this dungeon of the Mariscal Zavala military barracks, that he receives this visit and communicates a clear message: he will not give up.
“
I am serene, calm, and ready to spend three months or a hundred years here
,” declared the 67-year-old man during a…
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