Americas / Guatemala · Politics

Guatemala Congress elects Elfego Castañón as Comptroller General

Rank
Running: 26h
Updated: 5h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 1
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Emisoras Unidas Guatemala · Spanish 6 Oct, 12:33 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Spanish, 5 reports

Read at Emisoras Unidas

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Emisoras Unidas, 6 Oct, 12:33 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 6 Oct, 22:42 UTC.
Second country: Argentina, with Infobae.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 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 5 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

Emisoras Unidas 6 Oct, 12:33 UTC
Prensa Libre +7h 3m
República (GT) +10h 9m
La Hora (GT) +10h 21m
Infobae +12h 47m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 2 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 2: Argentina, Guatemala. 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, 6 Oct 2026, 12:33 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 23:30 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 21:14 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 Politics. 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: 0.04, 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.
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

7 Oct 2026 349 3.10 5 2 2 2 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 23:30 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 21:14 UTC

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Prensa Libre Guatemala 7 Oct, 21:14 UTC
Quién es Élfego Castañón, el nuevo Contralor General de Cuentas electo por el Congreso
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Congreso elige a Elfego Castañón como contralor general de Cuentas 6 Oct, 19:35 UTC
La Hora (GT) Guatemala 7 Oct, 17:44 UTC
Este es el perfil del nuevo Contralor: Una década en la Contraloría y hermano del diputado oficialista
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- “Me he preparado toda la vida”: Elfego Castañón habla tras ser electo como nuevo Contralor 7 Oct, 03:57 UTC
- Tal y como se advirtió, oficialismo logra elección de Elfego Castañón como nuevo Contralor 6 Oct, 22:53 UTC
Infobae Argentina 7 Oct, 01:20 UTC
El Congreso de Guatemala elige a su nuevo contralor con la nota más baja entre los finalistas y la abstención de su hermano diputado
República (GT) Guatemala 6 Oct, 22:42 UTC
Elfego Castañón, hermano de diputado oficialista, es el nuevo Contralor General de Cuentas
Emisoras Unidas Guatemala 6 Oct, 12:33 UTC
Congreso elige y juramenta al nuevo titular de la Contraloría