Hoy’s workers will be unemployed from September

The 154 workers of daily Hoy will come to the facilities of the newspaper in Quito until August 31, after that day they will be unemployed. This is one of the side effects of the closure of the company and the intervention of the Superintendency of Companies.

Daily Hoy had 32 years in practice of journalism and belonged to Edimpres company, this, when liquidated was forced to close the digital version and the printed edition of the weekend.liqut

The reactions to the final closure of the newspaper have been shown on two positions. The first is those critics who ensure that the closure of the media has a distinctly political character, which accelerated with the approval of the Communications Law and the advertising ban from public entities.

While on the other hand are those who claim that the closure of daily Hoy responds to issues of business nature, which is a non-political and technical decision from the Superintendency of Companies .