Assailing opposition media, Ecuador’s Correa accused of imperiling free speech

In the heat of a one-day police revolt over benefit cuts last September, President Rafael Correa’s government took the extraordinary step of ordering all TV channels to broadcast the signal of state-run television.
Correa survived the revolt — rescued from a besieged hospital by army commandos — but the government’s action fueled accusations that the president was showing a pattern of intolerance and even disdain for a critical press. Read Article