The sentence against Ecuadoran
newspaper El Universo, its opinion
editor, Emilio Palacio Urrutia, and its three top executives, Carlos Eduardo
Pérez Barriga, César Enrique Pérez Barriga, and Carlos Nicolás Pérez Lapentti, for
supposed offenses against Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa in Palacio's
article "NO
to lies," is a worn-out manifestation of the perverse concept
of public freedoms that certain elected governments manipulate. They pervert
their legitimacy with an authoritarian self-assuredness that permeates their exercise
of power.
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