Claudia's Gag Law Advances

The inexorable passage of time already reaches the elections of judges (1 June) and the redefinition of the modified text to be brought to the Senate plenary for approval (extraordinary period in the first days of June), thanks to the talks that take place in the upper chamber of the gag law promoted by President Claudia Sheinbaum.The gag law does not represent a technical reform or a advance in digital modernization; it is in reality a dangerou…

From its creation until the end of the government of former President Rafael Correa, power in Ecuador disguised itself as legality to exercise censorship with official seal. The Communication Council — formerly called CORDICOM— was not a technical body or an independent institution: it was the gag of correista media authoritarianism. Under its control, the Organic Communication Law became a sophisticated tool of repression, which was used to sil…