Episode 2: ABOUT THAT: Spotlight on Storytellers: HARRIS WHITBECK

About That with Marga Ortigas by Marga Ortigas

Feb 13, 202329:30Society & Culture

After decades of working with one of the largest global news companies in the world, Guatemala-born journalist, Harris Whitbeck, boldly tells his own story in a new memoir. He speaks to me from his home about death squad...

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