With the same ferocity with which Zurita “media-protects” the phone number of the murdered presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, the prosecution highlights the cover-up that helps the protected witness who surprisingly – at the end of the campaign – declares that the culprit of the murder is “Correra’s government”.

In both cases, there is the same interest that, as long as this sowing of uncertainty is clarified, the elections will go through. So, we can only speculate: about the possibility that the witness, now useless, will suffer a similar fate. If it’s also about erasing traces, top ten! I’m interested, I say, that we eat the latest indecent story with the memory of the murdered candidate and the intelligence of the Ecuadorians.

We have definitely lost our way as a country; getting used to the rising curve of violent deaths; destabilization of public services and administration; to the insolence of a justice system that has no interest in existing or appearing; the increasing lack of road communication, which affects production and export…

On August 9, he died as a result of an attack in Quito, Villavicencio. The seven material perpetrators of the murder died on October 6 in two prisons, that is, under the custody of the current Government. The next day, a “protected witness” comes on the scene and indicates through a spokesperson that Correa’s government is to blame! (Correra’s government: January 15, 2007 – May 24, 2017 Similar references obtained on Google: 11.9 million results found in 0.34 seconds).

Never before has the need for a period of electoral silence and reflection on voting been so felt…

It is evident that the Prosecutor’s Office becomes extremely effective whenever political cases are involved on the threshold of presidential elections. The country has had enough of this uncertainty, which has been spinning everyone and everything in a dark political campaign, and work remains insecure since the time of the pandemic; while the minister tells us to pray to the “little god” to avoid power outages in the energy sector; while accusations of alleged mafia infiltrations at various levels of the state leave us helpless.

The remembered Archbishop of Cuenza, Alberto Luna Tobar, said that for ordinary people, the only direct participation in this “limited democracy” is to go to the polls. He called it limited democracy. But at least it was a chance to justify it. And that’s where honest journalism plays a leading role: the media, journalism is a mechanism that connects the general public with politics; However, when the intention is to win over and convince this audience with certain stories, electoral politics gets stuck in the scandal of the free media.

Never before has the need for a period of electoral silence and reflection on the vote been felt so strongly after the recent judicial balloon-style journalistic condemnations. We will have to repair the interests of those who have passed the point of no return due to their very serious charges. Current conditions require it so as not to appear naive or stupid. (OR)