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Marielos Monzón

Marielos Monzón is an award-winning Guatemalan journalist and writer who publishes investigations in the daily newspaper Prensa Libre newspaper and presents programmes on Radio Universidad in the capital, Guatemala City. In September 2005 she received the Human Rights Journalism Under Threat award by Amnesty International.

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Guatemala: journalism under pressure

Marielos Monzón, a Guatemalan journalist, received the 2005 Human Rights Journalism Under Threat award from Amnesty International. In her acceptance speech, she describes a land where new injustices have succeeded the horrendous violence of the 1954-96 period.