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Distinguished Greenleaf Series: Journalism and Democracy with Sebastían Escalón

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Distinguished Greenleaf Series: Journalism and Democracy with Sebastían Escalón

Uptown Campus
Jones Hall
Greenleaf Conference Room, 100A Jones Hall

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Sebastían Escalón is a journalist, science writer, and podcast producer of El Experimento, a series about the fight against impunity in Guatemala. Escalón received the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2018. His work is published in Plaza Publica, El Faro, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and The French National Centre for Scientific Research.

In the last three years, Guatemala saw the end of an offensive against corruption and organized crime led by an UN-backed body of investigators called CICIG. After the backlash, a strong
kleptocracy, that includes the president and economic sectors, now has all the power. Sebastian Escalón will talk about the difficulties faced by journalists in this new context.

Contact sfialkof@tulane.edu for more info.

Center for Inter-American Policy and Research