Ecuador: Columnist must pay in lawsuit filed by the President for critical articles published

Posted on July 29, 2015 • Filed under: Ecuador, Politics

panampost.com reported when Ecuadorian psychiatrist and columnist Miguel Palacios Frugone published articles that criticized President Rafael Correa, he likely never imagined the price he would have to pay. A judge has ruled, as of July 23, that Palacios must compensate Correa with US$46,000 for alleged “moral damage.”

Palacios originally filed a 2010 lawsuit against the president for calling him a “rapist” on his weekly Citizen Link TV show. But Correa countersued Palacios over the publication of 20 articles at the website From My Trench. Read Article

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