By: John Otis | Committee to Protect Journalists
Like the death of a loved one. That's how Juan Carlos Calderón, editor of the newsmagazine
Vanguardia, described the June 28 closing of the newsweekly that for eight years published hard-hitting investigations about public officials and faced frequent government harassment. Yet the final days of
Vanguardia were almost as controversial as its stories.
The editorial staff publicly criticized ownership's decision to shutter the newsweekly in the wake of the June 14 passage of a restrictive new communications law.
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