Lucía Escobar/CPJ Guest Blogger
Lucía Escobar is a Guatemalan freelance journalist who was forced to relocate inside her country after repeated threats in 2011. You can read more about her ordeal here.
![A soldier patrols a lake in the town of Panajachel, where journalist Lucía Escobar used to live. (AFP/Orlando Sierra)](https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/panajachel.guatemala.afp_.jpg?w=400&h=236&crop=1)
Displaced by threats, old life gives way to new
For seven years I lived in Panajachel, a tourist town on the beautiful Atitlán Lake in Guatemala. There, my husband, Juan Miguel Arrivillaga, and I started a family and the independent news outlet Anti Magazine. We also hosted a radio program on the local station Radio Ati.