Lucía Escobar/CPJ Guest Blogger
Lucía Escobar is a Guatemalan freelance journalist who was forced to relocate inside her country after repeated threats in 2011. You can read more about her ordeal here.
Displaced by threats, old life gives way to new
For seven years I lived in Panajachel, a tourist town on the beautiful Atitlán Lake in Guatemala. There, my husband, Juan Miguel Arrivillaga, and I started a family and the independent news outlet Anti Magazine. We also hosted a radio program on the local station Radio Ati.