A controversial gag law on the press that was enacted last year has already ended a major newspaper’s print edition. According to Catalina Botero, the outgoing rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, “Ecuador is, along with Cuba, the country that most restricts freedom of expression.”
厄瓜多尔的民主制度同样也在遭到围攻。一份独立报告记录了12起政府插手法院裁决的案件。去年颁布的有争议的媒体禁言令已经导致主要纸媒体停印。即将离任的美洲人权委员会言论自由专员卡特琳娜·波特罗表示，“厄瓜多尔和古巴两国对言论自由的限制最为严重。”