Marvin DEL CID & Sonny FIGUEROA

Guatemalan journalists Marvin Del Cid and Sonny Figueroa faced continuing harassment in 2024. On 18 September 2024, Sonny Figueroa posted on social media that public officials had exposed personal information and data among their contacts. One day after Figueroa's post, on 19 September, a photo of the two of them walking down the street was posted on social media. These acts of intimidation are intended to stop them doing their investigative journalism into corruption in Guatemala's public system. In August 2024, both journalists were able to return to Guatemala, which they had fled in 2023 due to harassment (see Case List 2023/2024). 

Marvin Del Cid, born in Guatemala City in 1976, is journalist and author specialising in investigative and political issues. Founder of the NGO Artículo 35, he has also worked as a professor at universities in Chile and Guatemala. Sonny Figueroa, born in Guatemala City in 1992, is an investigative journalist and author specialising in political affairs. He is Vice-president of Artículo 35 and founder of the investigative online media outlet Vox Populi. They are the authors of ¡Yo no quiero ser reconocido como un hijueputa más! (I don’t want to be recognised as just another hijueputa!) and Así me convertí en un ‘hijueputa más’ (That’s how I became one more ‘hijueputa’).