Marco Antonio Estrada Orla was a Guatemalan journalist who was killed on June 6, 2009, in Chiquimula, Guatemala.
At the time of his death he had been working for ten years as a news correspondent for the national broadcaster Telediario, on Channel 3.
[1][2][3] An unidentified assailant fired four shots at Estrada at 8 pm on June 6, 2009, as he was getting off his motorcycle on a street in Chiquimula, 140 miles east of Guatemala City.
[2] His murder was condemned by the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, who expressed concern “about the effects of escalating violence against journalists in Guatemala and its negative impact on the quality of reporting.
It is essential that those responsible for such crimes be brought to justice, to ensure respect for the inalienable right of freedom of expression and people’s access to information.”[1] The murder was also condemned by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), which called on the authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the crime.