RIMA Fest: Stories You Can’t Erase: A Community Conversation on CAIMA

They tried to silence Central America’s journalists. They shut down newspapers, attacked reporters, erased websites, and locked editors in prison. But the stories are still here. The Central American Independent Media Archive (CAIMA) is proof that memory is stronger than censorship, and that a community can keep truth alive when the powerful want it forgotten.

Why is this important? Because the investigations in CAIMA are not old news—they’re about corruption, violence, and injustice that shape daily life today. And they’re also about courage: about reporters who risked everything so the rest of us could know what really happened. Preserving their work is not just about the past—it’s about our present, our dignity, and our right to know.

Journalists, activists, students, and anyone curious will come together to share stories, ask questions, and talk about how archives can become tools of resistance. 

Hosts:

Ramon Zamora, coordinator of Central American Independent Media Archive

Ilia Venyavkin, Program Director at Kronika

Speakers:

Juan Luis Font, director and host of the daily radio talk show “ConCriterio” and a co-founder of El Periodico newspaper in Guatemala

Angélica Cárcamo, Director of the Central American Network of Journalists

Quimy de León, journalist, founder of Prensa Comunitaria and Ruda