![]() ![]() Julian Hernandez, a spokesman for the Honduran police, said: "We are seeking more information about this crime in Mexico to determine if it is related to the murder of Igor Padilla and to see if any criminal gangs from Honduras were involved." Veracruz, where more journalists have been murdered than the rest of Mexico, is now the deadliest region for the media in the Western hemisphere, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in May. Rivera Paz fled to Mexico after Padilla's death, fearing that he might also be killed, a Honduran journalist who asked not to be identified told Reuters. Edwin Rivera Paz, who was shot dead in Veracruz state on Sunday according to officials, supposedly fled Honduras after a colleague had been killed Associated Press in Xalapa, Mexico Tue 11 Jul. He fled Honduras after armed assailants shot and killed Igor Padilla, the program's director and producer, in the violent city of San Pedro Sula in mid-January. Rivera Paz was a cameraman for the Honduran television program "Los Verduleros" (The Grocers). The body of Edwin Rivera Paz was found in the city of Acayucan on Sunday with gunshot wounds and was then identified by a family member, the attorney general's office said in a statement. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.MEXICO CITY/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The attorney general's office of the Mexican gulf state of Veracruz said on Monday it has opened an investigation into the shooting death of a Honduran photojournalist, who had apparently fled his home country fearing for his life. ![]() Piety, Power, and Politics: Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala, 1821–1871. Southern District of California (619) 557-5610 SAN DIEGO, CAA criminal complaint was unsealed today charging 43 defendants with participating in a federal racketeering (RICO) conspiracy. Research topic: Assessing chemical and genetic diversity of Philippine microbes. Guatemala: Instituto de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales, Escuela de Ciencia Política, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1996. Meet Edwin Alcantara, PhD, Newton Fund Institutional Links Grant awardee. Nación, caudillismo y conflicto étnico en Guatemala (1821–1854). BIBLIOGRAPHYĮdgar Escobar Medrano, Mariano Rivera Paz y su época (1982). Guerrillas ambushed and killed him as he traveled to his new post. In 1849 President Mariano Paredes named him corregidor of Jutiapa, with orders to pacify that rebellious montaña department. Rivera later served as alcalde of Guatemala City, director of the Sociedad Económica, and corregidor of the Department of Guatemala. In collaboration with Carrera, he presided over restoration of Hispanic values and institutions in Guatemala. ![]() Rivera was an active member of the conservative faction led by Juan José de Aycinena, and following Rafael Carrera's overthrow of Gálvez in 1838, served as chief of state of Guatemala for most of the subsequent five years. ![]() After the army's defeat by Francisco Morazán, Rivera went to Cobán, and during the administration of Mariano Gálvez (1831–1838) he represented Verapaz in the legislature and acquired considerable property. The son of a creole family of modest means, Rivera rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the federal army during the civil war of 1826–1829. ![]()
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