The Problem of Political Satire and Repression of Free Speech in Ecuador

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Xavier Bonilla, the Ecuadorean humorist and political cartoonist also known as Bonil, has received the dubious honor of being the first journalist to be sanctioned under his country’s new and controversial communications law.  By implementing the new law, the government of President Rafael Correa has fined his newspaper, El Universo of Guayaquil, $93,000 and ordered it to run a “correction.” 

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