Ecuador: President Correa calls newspaper editor “wicked” in new verbal attack
27 Jun 2012Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has personally attacked Gustavo Cortez, editor of the leading daily newspaper El Universo. During a TV broadcast on Saturday the President accused the newspaper editor of being “wicked” and “of having bad faith.” Whilst showing a photograph of the editor, Correa called on the people of Ecuador to remember Cortez as a “clear example of the bad press in the country.”
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Tags: Ecuador, El Universo, freedom of expression, Gustavo Cortez, press freedom, Rafael Correa
