Letters: Hopes for an exiled journalist, and a thank you for natural beauty

Safety for an exiled reporter

A thousand thank-yous for the Sept. 1 Weekly cover story, “‘Preemptive exit’: A journalist in exile” – for the courage to publish it, for the calm voice of an exiled journalist whom you featured, and for the assessments by organizations that are monitoring the state of democracy worldwide. 

Of course, we can read between the lines regarding the treatment of journalists and the perils for democracy in Russia, Gaza, and the United States. That there are more autocratic leaders than democratic leaders in the world now was a key, sobering fact. 

I hope that Nelson Rauda Zablah finds a safe haven in whichever country he ultimately flees to. It sounded like he would not be able to stay in the U.S. A follow-up article on the ways that the U.S. might be following the path of antidemocratic autocrats in El Salvador and elsewhere would be welcome.