28 September 2010
Victor Hugo Juarez
Other non-natural
Unidentified assailants tortured and killed Guatemalan journalist Victor Hugo Juarez in a residential area just outside the capital, his family said Tuesday.
Juarez, who was killed in the attack along with Byron Davila Diaz, the 38-year-old owner of a small graphic design company, owned two online news sites: Wanima News and Guatemala Empresarial.
The bodies, which police said were found Monday at Davila's home, were tied up in a bed, showed signs of torture and strangulation, according to an official report. Juarez, 50, had reported for the daily Siglo XXI and, more recently, for the sports section of Nuestro Diario newspaper. Juarez had received death threats prior to his death.
