Zona 14 in Ciudad de Guatemala in Guatemala Department, — Central America

Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia

Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, August 6, 2016

1. Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Reconocimiento del estado a la memoria de la:
Licenciada Irma Marina Flaquea (sic, Flaquer) Azurdia
por su lucha y defensa de los derechos
humanos en especial a la libertad de
expresión y por decir:
“Los que otros callan”

Licenciado Alfonso Portillo Cabrera
Presidente de la Republica de Guatemala
Guatemala, 5 de septiembre 2001

English translation:
Recognition from the state to the memory of:
Irma Marina Flaquea (sic, Flaquer) Azurdia
for her struggle and defense of human rights,
especially the right of expression,
and for saying:
“What others silence”

Alfonso Portillo Cabrera
President of the Republic of Guatemala
Guatemala, September 5, 2001

Erected 2001.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Communications • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US. A significant historical date for this entry is September 5, 2001.

Location. 14° 34.469′ N, 90° 31.459′ W. Memorial is in Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala (Guatemala Department). It is in Zona 14. It can be reached from Avenida Las Americas close to 21a Calle. The marker is in the traffic circle on Avenida Las Americas in Zone 14 of Guatemala

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City. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala 01014, Guatemala. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in North America,

specifically in Central America,

in Mesoamerica,

on the Ring of Fire,

in the Pacific Rim,

and in the Western Hemisphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain

and also a Spanish colony.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Captain General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (approx. one kilometer away); Benito Juárez (approx. 1.1 kilometers away); General José de San Martín (approx. 1.3 kilometers away); Bicentenario de Guatemala (approx. 1.3 kilometers away); Guatemalan Air Force Memorial (approx. 1.4 kilometers away); José Cecilio del Valle (approx. 1.5 kilometers away); General Francisco de Paula Santander (approx. 1.7 kilometers away); Antonio José de Irisarri (approx. 1.9 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ciudad de Guatemala.

Regarding Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia. Irma Flaquer Azurdia (b. Guatemala City, Guatemala - 1938), was a Guatemalan

Guatemalan journalists fallen during the execution of their duties, 1987 marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, August 6, 2016

2. Guatemalan journalists fallen during the execution of their duties, 1987 marker

Homenaje a los periodistas caidos en el ejercicio de la profesion
Alejandro Cordova · Enrique Salazar Solorzano · Miguel Angel Valle · Isidoro Zarco · Jose Leon Castañeda · Irma Flaquer · Marco Antonio Cacao Muñoz · Manuel de Jesus Marroquin · Mario Ribas Montes · Fulvio Alirio Mejia Milian · Jorge Adalberto Marroquin Mejia · Roberto Giron Lemus · Luz Angelina Jimenez · Jorge Soria Santiago · Gilberto Castellanos Pellecer · Mario Monterroso Armas · Luis Diaz Perez · Luis Alberto Romero · Edgar Federico Torres Vaides
Junta Directiva A.P.G.
Guatemala 12 de enero de 1987.

psychologist and journalist known for her frank criticism of the Guatemalan government. In 1958 she started a column in the Guatemalan newspaper La Hora, entitled "Lo que otros callan" ("What others silence") which she would later transfer over to La Nación newspaper in the years 1971 to 1980. On October 16, 1980, she and her son were returning to their home when they were attacked by gunmen in two cars. Her son Fernando was killed directly and she was abducted and never seen again. She had been the first white, middle-class, professional woman to have been abducted and presumably murdered in Guatemala during that time. The Inter American Press Association investigated the case of Irma Flaquer as part of its impunity project, and the case was the first that the IAPA brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for her disappearance, at the very least by not protecting her as a public figure. This marker was part of the Guatemalan government's agreement to take responsibility for her disappearance and death. Ironically, her name is misspelled, showing Flaquea and

Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia Marker and other associated markers image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, August 6, 2016

3. Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia Marker and other associated markers

The base next to the obelisk reads: Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 1897-1978, Paladin de la Libertad de Prensa, Homenaje de la Municipalidad de Guatemala, 1979

not Flaquer.

Fallen Guatemalan Congressional journalists additional marker from 1990 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, August 6, 2016

4. Fallen Guatemalan Congressional journalists additional marker from 1990

Post-actus
A los cronistas parlamentarios fallecidos en ejercicio de su prefesion y por su vocacion democratica
Guat. 14 de julio 1990
M.A.E.

In memory of fallen journalists additional marker from 1974 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. Makali Bruton, August 6, 2016

5. In memory of fallen journalists additional marker from 1974

En memoria de los periodistas caidos
en el ejercicio de su profesion

Asociacion de Periodistas
de Guatemala
1974

Municipalidad de Guatemala

Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia image. Click for full size.

6. Irma Marina Flaquer Azurdia

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Credits. This page was last revised on May 7, 2020. It was originally submitted on October 2, 2016, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 883 times since then and 40 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on October 2, 2016, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. 6. submitted on May 7, 2020, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia.