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Ecuadorian journalist Luis Eduardo Vivanco receives death threats

  • Source: CPJ
  • July 1, 2021

"On June 24, [Luis Eduardo] Vivanco, founder of the satirical news website La Posta, was walking his dog in Quito, the capital, when an unidentified man began screaming at him from a nearby car, he told CPJ via messaging app. The man then left the car and said, 'Vivanco, you son of a bitch, I’m going to kill you.'

The journalist recorded the encounter on his phone; he said the man left the scene after seeing that Vivanco was filming him.

The following day, Vivanco received a WhatsApp message from an account he did not recognize, which he posted to Twitter, saying that a person identified as 'Bearded Gil' was going to 'kill you or shut your horn.'"

 

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