La Hora
La Hora is a long-running Guatemalan newspaper now publishing primarily online, known for independent investigative reporting and opinion. It reports on national politics, justice, economy and international affairs and is regarded as center-left.
La Hora at a glance
- Country
- Guatemala
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- lahora.gt ↗
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How Crosswire groups La Hora
Crosswire groups La Hora as Left-leaning for comparisons within Guatemala's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Guatemala, Prensa Libre and Soy502 are listed as Centrist, while República is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open La Hora beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where La Hora sits in Guatemala's press
La Hora is one of 5 outlets tracked in Guatemala, and one of 2 daily newspapers among them — the other being Prensa Libre. By outlets tracked, Guatemala ranks fifth of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to La Hora outside Guatemala, starting with Mexico and Central America, are La Prensa (Honduras), La Prensa (Nicaragua), La Nación (CR) (Costa Rica) and La Prensa (Panama). Opening one of them beside La Hora is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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