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Correa: “It is perfectly legitimate to have a communication law”

Posted On 28 Apr 2014

Correa-Ley-ComunicaciónThe President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, defended the regulation of the media, facing to criticism from the international press and organizations that defend freedom of expression.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, Correa said that all power needs social regulation and that is done through laws. `Where is the problem? Why is it a power that auto-legitimizes saying it is freedom of the press? ´, Said the president.

Correa added that `criticism is not sanctioned by law and neither by the Government. Lies, infamy, slander are punishable.´

`It is perfectly legitimate to have a law of communication, which is not media law, that has positive things as the professionalization of journalists,´ he conlcuded.

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