GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -- The host of a Guatemalan radio chat show which aired callers' gripes with provincial government officials, has been shot and
killed after receiving a spate of death threats, police said Thursday.

Jorge Mynor Alegria, a 38-year-old presenter for Radio Amatique, which broadcasts from the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios across Guatemala's eastern Izabal district, was
killed near his house late Wednesday, a local police spokesman said. "He had been receiving death threats for some time," the spokesman, who could not specify the nature of
the threats, said.

A man was arrested in connection with the killing, he said. Alegria regularly denounced alleged wrongdoings by Izabal district officials on his weekday lunchtime show and
encouraged callers to the program to do the same, said one of five remaining staff at the station, requesting anonymity. "Everyone said what they thought," he said. "When
you put your finger in the wound, it hurts."

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