From a New York Times story by Jody Garcia and Elda Cantú headlined “A Newspaper’s Closing Deals a Blow to a Nation’s Democracy”:

When the newspaper elPeriodico was founded in Guatemala in 1996, the country was emerging from a brutal civil war, and there was a feeling that a small space for free thought might be opening.

That opening closed this week when elPeriodico, which made a name for itself and became a frequent target for trying to hold Guatemala’s governments to account, published its final digital edition.