Ecuador High Court Upholds $40 Million Libel Suit Against Newspaper

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By: Mariano Castillo and Nelson Quinones | CNN

(CNN) -- Ecuador's highest court has upheld a conviction and a $40 million judgment against a newspaper in a case that pitted the paper's directors and a former opinion editor against the country's president.

The three-judge panel ruled late Wednesday that a lower court's decision to hold the paper accountable for the content of an opinion column that described President Rafael Correa as a dictator was correct.































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