John Oliver roasted one of Latin America’s most sensitive presidents on Sunday for attempting to confront his critics on Twitter.
The segment poked fun at Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, whose government has launched an effort to rally its supporters to gang up on critics who use social media to insult the president.
Oliver portrayed the campaign as beneath the dignity of a president, rolling footage of one of Correa’s weekly broadcast messages in which he lambasted an 18-year-old Twitter user for his insults and calls to violence.
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“Since Ecuador’s restrictive Communications Law was implemented in 2013, it has acted as a straitjacket for the media,” the group writes on its website. “Newspapers are fined, editors self-censor, and President Rafael Correa sues and constantly ridicules journalists.”
Watch the John Oliver segment above. If you’d like to tell President Correa what you think of it, his Twitter handle is @MashiRafael.
