# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-ruben-zamora
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:27:49.385Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-ruben-zamora"
name: "José Rubén Zamora"
slug: "jose-ruben-zamora"
description: "José Rubén Zamora Marroquín is a Guatemalan industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and the founder of three Guatemalan newspapers: Siglo Veintiuno in 1990, El Periódico in 1996, and Nuestro Diario in 1998. He has been threatened and attacked on several occasions for his work, including being held hostage in his home in 2003 and being kidnapped and beaten in 2008."
tagline: "Guatemalan journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jos%C3%A9_Rub%C3%A9n_Zamora_Marroqu%C3%ADn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956-08-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.58
  momentum:             7.753222836095765
  historical:           9.634704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/ChepeZamora"
    handle:    "ChepeZamora"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "José Rubén Zamora Marroquín"
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    title: "José Rubén Zamora Marroquín"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "José Rubén Zamora"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump