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May 18

Ecuador declares "the exercise of the right to inviolability of correspondence, freedom of information, and freedom of association and assembly is suspended". Nobody notices but TeleSUR.

TeleSUR published an article today [1] that said that Ecuador had suspended the above rights. It puts this in the context of Ola Bini, and says that these rights were suspended only for prisoners. I tracked down the original decree as published on Twitter (!) by the verified poster (Secretaria General de Comunicacion), and I'm actually not sure it's even that limited: it declares an emergency in prisons and then says "El Decreto tambien establece:" (the decree also establishes) the above conditions. So the way I read it (not being at all good in Spanish), they just suspended these rights in the whole country! Maybe there's some limit to how far decrees can go, though that seems impossibly optimistic, which is why it's good to have secondary source coverage.

IS there any secondary source coverage other than TeleSUR? I get literally nothing out of Google but one random tweet, and Duckduckgo and Bing seem to pad their results for it with junk as far as I can tell. Can a country really sink into an abandonment of basic principles and the entire global media dares not to comment? Wnt (talk) 13:10, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's because TeleSur is run by the Venezuelan government. Or maybe it's untrue. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:24, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

When you say "maybe it's untrue", do you mean that this posting by a verified Twitter account is not from the Ecuadorian government, or that the interpretations that I, Ola Bini's supporters, and TeleSUR take from it are incorrect? From my perusal recently, TeleSUR doesn't seem any less reliable than Western media. Wnt (talk) 19:29, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think they're only talking about the prison system, or the "social rehabilitation centers" as they call it. And it's for 60 days. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:19, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]