Today at El Universo‘s website (my translation):
PUBLIC APOLOGY ORDERED BY SUPERCOM
In compliance to Resolution Nº 009-2015-DNJRD-INPS, issued by Communications Superintendent Carlos Ochoa within PROCEEDING Nº 0129-2014-INPS-DNJRD (IGJ-SEDE-0198-2014), notified on February 15 2015, I issue public apologies to the collective complainants who felt injured by La columna de Bonil’s cartoon, published on page 8 of Diario EL UNIVERSO on August 5, 2014, which, also by order of the aforementioned official, will be published on the main screen of this media’s webpage, for a period of time of at least seven consecutive days.The publication of this apology does not mean agreement with the specific annulments of administrative process 0129-2014-INPS-DNJRD (IGJ-SEDE-0198-2014), which we shall continue to denounce through administrative, judicial, and constitutional actions and recourses, locally and internationally which help us.
Carlos Pérez B.,
Director, Diario EL UNIVERSO
Spanish original,
DISCULPA PÚBLICA ORDENADA POR LA SUPERCOM
En cumplimiento de la Resolución Nº 009-2015-DNJRD-INPS, expedida por el superintendente de Información y Comunicación, Carlos Ochoa Hernández, dentro del TRÁMITE Nº 0129-2014-INPS-DNJRD (IGJ-SEDE-0198-2014), notificada el 13 de febrero del 2015, extiendo disculpas públicas a los colectivos denunciantes que se sintieron afectados por la caricatura de La columna de Bonil, publicada en la página 8 de la edición de Diario EL UNIVERSO del 5 de agosto del 2014, la cual también por disposición del antes nombrado funcionario, será publicada en la primera interfaz de la página web de este medio de comunicación, por un plazo no menor a siete días consecutivos.
La publicación de esta disculpa no significa allanamiento alguno a las nulidades específicas del proceso administrativo 0129-2014-INPS-DNJRD (IGJ-SEDE-0198-2014), que seguiremos denunciando mediante el ejercicio de los recursos y acciones administrativas, judiciales y constitucionales, locales e internacionales que nos asisten.
Carlos Pérez B.,
Director de Diario EL UNIVERSO
Mr. Bonilla was sued by an Afro-Ecuadorean group over a photomontage published in August that made fun of Agustín “Tin” Delgado, a former national soccer team player turned lawmaker for the ruling Alianza País party, who stuttered through a speech in the National Assembly. A video of the speech had been widely watched on social networks.
Here’s the speech,
Here’s what El Universal had to apologize for,
First frame: A-a-after my s-ssp-speech, everyone’s saying “Poor Tin, poor Tin.”
Second frame: But with my ASSEMBLYMAN salary, no one calls me “poor guy”!
Earlier in 2014, the Correa government had ordered that Bonilla change a prior cartoon,
Xavier Bonilla’s cartoon before:
Xavier Bonilla’s cartoon after:
A that time, EL Universo was fined $90,000.