Daniel Noboa reiterated his support for the free press

La Hora, through its director Gabriela Vivanco, has held the presidency of the Executive Committee since the previous year. The Director of said newspaper, precisely, showed the video of Noboa. Before the audience she reminded the exiled journalists and the risks that communicators face in the face of insecurity in Ecuador. She also made a request for openness to the new Government.

“Today Ecuador has nine journalists in exile for security reasons and in recent years murders against journalists and communicators have increased, unprecedented events that still remain unpunished,” commented Vivanco. «We hope for openness on the part of President Noboa, access to sources of information, transparency in his management and political will to implement, once and for all, the protection mechanism for journalists that the IAPA has requested from the Ecuadorian government since the mid-year meeting. of the IAPA in Medellín, in 2018,” concluded the Director of La Hora before Daniel Noboa ‘s message .

In a video, Daniel Noboa said: «The IAPA, like me, fight every day to have freedom. To always be able to fight for the truth. And, likewise, strengthen our democratic systems throughout America .”

He continued: «I reiterate my support for the press, for the free press. And, today more than ever, we must stand together as democratic brothers to protect our democracy from evil forces, to protect our democracy from authoritarian systems.

And he continued: «I reiterate my support for the press, for the free press. And, today more than ever, we must stand together as democratic brothers to protect our democracy from evil forces, to protect our democracy from authoritarian systems.

At the event, which takes place in Mexico, the two candidates for the Presidency of that country, the ruling party Claudia Sheinbaum and the opposition member of the Frente Amplio, Xóchtil Gálvez, will also ratify the Chapultepec Declaration, which was signed for the first time in Mexico 30 years ago and which has been endorsed by some 70 Heads of State in 30 years.

SIP has members in Ecuador, which include newspapers such as La Hora, Expreso and El Universo of Guayaquil, La Prensa of Riobamba, and El Mercurio of Cuenca. Likewise, the executive director of the CLAEP University Accreditation program for Journalism studies, Juan David Bernal.

For several years, the IAPA has monitored the protection of journalists in the country, including supporting the promulgation of the Access to Public Information Law in 2004, monitoring the murder of journalists in the country, which has increased in the last decade. , as well as the necessary reforms to the Communication Law that allow the exercise of free journalism in Ecuador.

The second work point of the IAPA prioritizes the sustainability of the media in America . To this end, he leads several free seminars for journalists and media executives, as well as an annual conference on how to produce income, which takes place every month in July in Miami, under the name SIPConnect.

Violence against the media and journalists

The growth of violence against journalists and media during electoral processes will be one of the most pressing issues that the IAPA will address in its General Assembly .

A panel coordinated with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will explore technological tools that can improve electoral coverage and “counteract efforts to silence or intimidate journalists by antidemocratic forces.”».