The U-turn: Moreno steers Ecuador away from Correa's media repression
July 12, 2018 12:30 PM ET
The administration of President Lenín Moreno has dramatically diverged from that of his predecessor, Rafael Correa, who was severely critical of the Ecuadoran press and passed one of the most restrictive media laws in the region. Nonetheless, journalists say...
Ecuador's Moreno opens new era in relations with media
October 10, 2017 1:55 PM ET
Less than a month after taking office, Ecuadoran President Lenín Moreno engineered a ceasefire in the decade-long battle between the government and the nation's independent news media by inviting a group of radio, TV, and newspaper editors to the...
Ecuadoran daily fined for publishing unsatisfactory government rebuttal
June 16, 2015 4:05 PM ET
Bogotá, June 16, 2015--Ecuador's state media oversight commission on Saturday fined the independent daily El Universo about US$350,000, accusing the paper of unsatisfactorily publishing a government rebuttal to a story, according to news reports....
Ecuador issues sanctions for cartoon mocking congressman
February 23, 2015 2:19 PM ET
On February 13, 2015, Ecuador's media oversight commission, the Superintendency of Information and Communication (SUPERCOM), ordered the Guayaquil-based daily El Universo to publish an apology in connection with a cartoon drawn by Xavier Bonilla, a cartoonist known by his penname...
Cartoonist sanctioned under Ecuador's communications law
February 3, 2014 2:47 PM ET
Bogotá, February 3, 2014- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the decision by Ecuador's media oversight agency on Friday to use the country's communications law to sanction the leading local daily El Universo over a critical cartoon. The agency fined...