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...