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The incident took place while the reporter was covering demonstrations about the visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to Ecuador.

Journalist Ronald Escobar Alegría, director of the program “Vox Populi”, was attacked with a knife by a worker of the Provincial Municipality of Urubamba.

Journalist Florencio Rebata Reyes had criticised the councillor’s administration on his radio show.

Approximately 20 men on motorbikes beat Rolando Hurtado while he was covering a protest.

Ruben Montoya and Mariuxi León of “El Telégrafo” were dismissed after they voiced their disapproval of a plan to use newspaper staff for a government project.

Thirteen IFEX members in Latin America and the Caribbean endorse the joint statement issued in February 2010 by the Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression.

The journalists were reporting about electricity shortages when security personnel at the bingo hall tried to prevent them from filming.

The journalist thinks the attack was in retaliation for comments he made about the involvement of various women in the ruling party’s electoral campaign.