About the premiere of the documentary “With my heart in Yambo”, which reflects the tragedy of the Restrepo brothers and drama experienced by their families which for years were demanding justice, the president, Rafael Correa, leaves the public stage to take advantage of this event and demagoguery, which does not attract attention. Putting on the suit of a defender of human rights posed reopen the case to find those responsible for the disappearance of the brothers Santiago and Andres.

Of human rights defender Rafael Correa has nothing; his administration has been spotted by constant acts of rape to them. Dayuma chapter opened in December 2007: More than a dozen detainees accused of terrorism and sabotage, including the prefect, several wounded and tortured were registered by the action of the savage government repression, over much of its inhabitants had flee to the jungle to avoid being victims. Bosco Wisuma was killed during the protests that the teachers and the indigenous movement developed in September 2009 and so far that crime remains unpunished. These days Ecuador witnessed the brutal police repression unleashed against high school students, the result of which the student Edison Cocíos hovering between life and death, while the government does not say who was responsible for that.

The criminalization of social protest has been the insignia of this government, more than 250 Ecuadorian men and women face trial for ‘sabotage and terrorism “either by participating in the demonstrations of teaching, in the fight against mining large-scale, open pit, to require revenues to the universities and to express solidarity with other sectors in struggle.

The most emblematic case of violation of human rights and the criminalization of social protest is played by Marcelo Rivera, ex- president of FEUE. An illegal sentence of three years imprisonment was imposed by a judge who knelt before the government’s orders and now, when by law is entitled to benefit from a reduction of sentence it is denied.

Examples abound to demonstrate how the government violent and tramples human rights and civil liberties. It is outrageous to see how today he wants to handle a case that shocked the country years ago, committed during authoritarian and arrogant a government same as the current

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