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Journalist murder triggers riots in Guatemala

Rank
Ran: 31h
Updated: 27h ago
Closed
Outlets: 6
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

Emisoras Unidas Guatemala · Spanish 3 Oct, 05:23 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 6 reports

Read at Emisoras Unidas

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Emisoras Unidas, 3 Oct, 05:23 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 3 Oct, 15:11 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Americas 6 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

Emisoras Unidas 3 Oct, 05:23 UTC
La Hora (GT) +9h 49m
Prensa Libre +9h 58m
Infobae +11h 34m
El País (UY) +13h 8m

Last to join

República (GT) 3 Oct, 19:52 UTC
El País (UY) 3 Oct, 18:31 UTC
Infobae 3 Oct, 16:57 UTC
Prensa Libre 3 Oct, 15:20 UTC
La Hora (GT) 3 Oct, 15:11 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Guatemala, Uruguay. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Spanish.
Timeline: Earliest article Emisoras Unidas, 3 Oct 2026, 05:23 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 16:10 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 23:34 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, Guatemala. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.00, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by US condemns murder of Guatemalan journalist Evelio López Sánchez. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

3 Oct 2026 211 3.56 6 3 6 3 4.0

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Started 3 Oct, 16:10 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 23:34 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Americas 6 outlets

Prensa Libre Guatemala 4 Oct, 23:34 UTC
Asociaciones de prensa piden esclarecer crimen en contra del periodista Evelio López en Huehuetenango
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- Tensión continúa en San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango, tras crimen en contra de periodista 3 Oct, 17:54 UTC
- Asesinato de periodista desata disturbios en San Pedro Necta, Huehuetenango 3 Oct, 15:20 UTC
Infobae Argentina 4 Oct, 16:57 UTC
La Asociación de Prensa de Huehuetenango denuncia el asesinato del periodista Evelio Lisandro López Sánchez ante el Ministerio Público de Guatemala
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- Guatemala: Pobladores queman subestación policial, una vivienda y un vehículo en Huehuetenango tras asesinato de periodista 3 Oct, 16:57 UTC
La Hora (GT) Guatemala 3 Oct, 23:24 UTC
Cuerpo del periodista Evelio López es llevado al Inacif, pobladores lo despiden entre lágrimas
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- Muerte de periodista desata disturbios: turba incendia vivienda, vehículo y subestación en San Pedro Necta 3 Oct, 15:11 UTC
República (GT) Guatemala 3 Oct, 19:52 UTC
Asesinan a periodista en Huehuetenango y pobladores queman subestación de la PNC
El País (UY) Uruguay 3 Oct, 18:31 UTC
Guatemala: asesinan a un periodista de 34 años y vecinos queman una comisaría en protesta
Emisoras Unidas Guatemala 3 Oct, 10:28 UTC
Avanzan investigaciones por asesinato de periodista en San Pedro Necta
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- Asesinato de periodista causa disturbios en San Pedro Necta 3 Oct, 05:23 UTC