Vilma Vargas’s politically charged cartoons have drawn criticism from Raphael Correa’s regime, and last May an exhibition of her work was censored by Ecuador’s cultural organization.
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The presidential election in Ecuador is still too close to call, and protesters are taking to the streets in Quito as tension mounts.
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Political cartoonist Vilma Vargas knows that “the text is the fight but the image is the knockout.”
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Ecuador cut off Julian Assange’s Internet access after the latest batch of emails were leaked from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.
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The stigma of being an atheist in Ecuador. This cartoon was commissioned by Index on Censorship magazine and published in a special about taboos.
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Vilma Vargas’s exhibition, featuring a central theme of freedom of expression, is facing censorship from the Ecuadorian government.
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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on Saturday night.
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