Yes I'm sure he's terrified of the popular will. Under the old media laws he served 8 years and only got 57% of the vote and a super majority in the congress in the last election 4 months ago. The people are about to storm the presidential palace and kick him out any day now. Time to secretly pass with a public vote in congress the media law he's been publicly calling for for years.

Fess up - you do not know what the fuck you are talking about - haven't bothered to Google word 1 - or you're just lying on purpose. Though it seems you've Googled stuff that fits your argument - maybe your Google has a leg missing?

From March 2012, during his campaign and a year before re-elected:

Following El Universo pardons, Correa continues his fight against what he calls the ’the dictatorship of the media’

Posted By Admin | Published: March 16, 2012 10:47 www.Cuencahighlife.com

The fight goes on for Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, who has been in a relentless donnybrook with his country’s news media almost from the day he took office five years ago.

At the end of February, he pardoned three executives and a columnist at El Universo, a leading conservative newspaper, who were sentenced to three years in jail and fined $42 million in a libel lawsuit brought by the president. But it was not a truce, Correa explained. He is no less irate at what he calls the dictatorship of the media.

“We are in a battle,” Correa said in an interview in the presidential palace last week. Comparing his campaign against the news media to Abraham Lincoln’s shutdown of newspapers sympathetic to the South during the Civil War, he said that he had set his sights squarely on the wealthy, who, for generations, have exerted economic and political power here.

“Part of that power is the communications media that belongs to the elites that have destroyed Latin America,” he said, under the gaze of a portrait of Eugenio Espejo, an 18th-century writer often considered the father of Ecuadorean journalism.

 Correa’s televised anti-media tirades, his lawsuits against journalists and a new law that could handcuff coverage of elections all bring comparisons to President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. Chávez, a socialist ally of Correa, has shut down Venezuelan television and radio stations that produced unfavorable coverage.

From Feb this year: Ecuador holds February 17 presidential elections as polls suggest a landslide reelection of President Rafael Correa. With a lead of over 60 percent in the intended vote, Correa maintains high popularity in the Andean country, while a divided opposition put seven candidates up for election. In order to win in the first round, a candidate must get at least 40 percent of the vote and have at least a 10-point lead over the second-place candidate—something Correa managed in the last election. Correa’s social programs and government spending have helped bolster his ratings, though some observers remain concerned about the leader’s expansion of executive power.

Rafael Correa first entered office in 2007 as part of the left-wing PAIS Alliance, campaigning on the promise of a “citizen’s revolution” to expand social programs. Ecuadoran presidential terms ran four years at the time, but a new constitution passed in 2008 led to elections in April 2009. Correa won with nearly 52 percent of the vote. Though presidents can serve a maximum of two terms, Correa’s 2009 reelection was considered his first administration under the new constitution.

Rafael Correa is about ‘long-term reforms’

Since taking office, President Rafael Correa ramped up public spending by 15 percent, expanded a popular cash transfer program to reach almost two million people, and used oil revenues to invest in infrastructure and social programs. Unemployment fell to less than five percent in November—less than half that of January 2007 levels. “Correa is not just political muscle and lots of politicking, like Chavez,” Ecuadoran sociologist Franklin Ramirez told the Financial Times. “Correa is about execution and long-term reforms.”

But Correa has also stirred controversy by passing laws to limit the power of the National Assembly, appointing friendly judges, and curbing press freedoms. Correa sued critical journalists, and passed a law controlling election coverage in the press—leading to a near absence of opinion and analysis pieces in the newspapers during this campaign season. In addition, the print media is prohibited from publishing any information about the campaign from February 15. The Economist Intelligence Unit warned of possible electoral fraud; the government did not invite EU observers this year, and the National Electoral Council’s staff now includes many close to the Correa administration.

Correa’s closest contender is Gullermo Lasso, a former banker and a candidate from the conservative Creating Opportunities party. Polling at between nine and 20 percent, Lasso promises to lower corporate and import taxes, as well as giving incentives for businesses to create more jobs.

Read more: http://www.voxxi.com/rafael-correa-expected-win-third-term/#ixzz2XJggyXYJB

By the way, Correa's a PhD in Economics from U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Perhaps he has a better idea of economics than a military guy like Chavez. Running against a rich guy buying up votes who'd come to power by coup d'état, here's Correa in 2006

There was no doubt relief when Rafael Correa, labeled by the (US) media as a "radical leftist economist" and "friend of Hugo Chavez," gained the greatest number of votes November 26. Correa's campaign promised to dissolve congress, rewrite the constitution, permanently halt free trade agreement talks with Washington and shut down the US military base in Ecuador's western city of Manta. His victory is now being disputed by Noboa, who is demanding a recount.

But these same social movements, following Ecuador's most ideologically polarized presidential election in recent history, have a new task at hand: holding Rafael Correa true to his commitments.