Police in Ecuador are investigating the murder of a journalist in western Guayas province, whose body was found a day before a correspondent for the newspaper El Universo received a series of death threats. Luis Arnoldo “Noro” Ruiz, a correspondent for Extra and a former contributor to El Universo was found shot in the head […]

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa over the weekend announced he was “seriously considering” directing government ministers to only grant interviews to public media, the latest incident in the leftist administration’s clampdown on critical press. “Why do we have to give interviews … to Televisa, to Teleamazonas, to El Universo if they are private businesses?” Correa asked, according […]

Read this article in English  El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) expresó el lunes sus serias preocupaciones por el deterioro de la libertad de prensa en Ecuador, luego de haber desarrollado una misión de libertad de prensa en el país, entre el 7 y el 11 de mayo. Durante la […]

The graffiti leapt out at us as we drove through Quito, the capital of Ecuador, on the first day of our May 7-11 IPI press freedom mission: “Weapons of Mass Destruction: El Commercio, El Universo and Teleamazonas” – a derogatory reference to the country’s two  leading independent newspapers, and an independent television broadcaster. Across the […]