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Weekly Report - 06 February 2014 (WR-14-05)
ECUADOR: Correa castigates cartoonist
Ecuador’s most famous volcano, Tungurahua, erupted this week, producing clouds of ash affecting 10 provinces and reaching Quito. In addition to the cloud of ash hanging over Quito, there is a cloud of controversy as the new communications law was applied for the first time since being ratified by President Rafael Correa on 21 January. Ecuador’s most famous cartoonist, Xavier ‘Bonil’ Bonilla, was compelled to issue a ‘correction’ for a cartoon depicting a raid on the house of an investigative journalist, Fernando Villavicencio, in which computers and documents were seized by the judicial police [WR-14-04]. Bonilla becomes the first cartoonist in the region to be sanctioned in this way, raising fresh concerns about press censorship in Ecuador.
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