Compléter MakGuateKillField-6Version en ligne MakGuateKillField-6 par pamela lam 1 terrorist blown destruction journalists voice newly torrent FUNDED media miss In 1988 , a opened Guatemalan newspaper called La Epoca was up by government terrorists . At the time , the media here were very much exercised over the fact that the US - journal in Nicaragua , La Prensa , which was openly calling for the overthrow of the government and supporting the US - run army , had been forced to a couple of issues due to a shortage of newsprint . That led to a of outrage and abuse , in the Washington Post and elsewhere , about Sandinista totalitarianism . On the other hand , the of La Epoca aroused no interest whatsoever and was not reported here , although it was well - known to US . Naturally the US couldn't be expected to notice that US - funded security forces had silenced the one , tiny independent that had tried , a few weeks earlier , to speak up in Guatemala .