Guatemala's President Attacks Newspapers

By: E&P Staff Barely more than a year ago, a high-level delegation from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) returned home from Guatemala cautiously hopeful that the Central American nation had finally left behind its history of official intimidation of -- and violence against -- the press. But now the IAPA and others are accusing the government of running an official harassment campaign against the nation's major dailies.

Mark Fitzgerald has the full story in his latest "Americas Extra" column.