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  "slug": "rafael-correa",
  "name": "Rafael Correa",
  "office": null,
  "role": "President of Ecuador",
  "country": "EC",
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      "slug": "2013-ecuador-communications-law-supercom",
      "title": "Ecuador's Organic Communication Law creates a regulator that issues hundreds of sanctions against journalists and outlets",
      "occurred_on": "2013-06-25",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "EC",
      "country_name": "Ecuador",
      "continent": "south-america",
      "jurisdiction": "EC",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
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        "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
        "insult_and_defamation_laws"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "rafael-correa",
      "leader_name": "Rafael Correa",
      "issue_of_the_day": "President Correa's long-running public disputes with Ecuadorian media over their coverage of his government, including a separate 2011 libel case against the newspaper El Universo.",
      "outcome": "reversed",
      "outcome_on": "2018-07-24",
      "outcome_note": "President Lenin Moreno's government moved to eliminate SUPERCOM in 2018; Fundamedios director Cesar Ricaurte said the surrounding legal framework nonetheless remained \"intact.\"",
      "stage": "pressure",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 125,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 125th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "2010s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "Ecuador's National Assembly passed the Organic Communication Law under President Rafael Correa, creating the Superintendency of Information and Communication (SUPERCOM), a regulator that issued more than 675 sanctions against journalists and media outlets over the following four years.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2013-ecuador-communications-law-supercom"
    }
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    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
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