QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador's government promised Wednesday to protect press freedoms despite including three television stations among nearly 200 businesses seized to collect debts from a bank collapse.But it also moved to revoke concessions on 229 other frequencies.
"In no way does the government intend to control or interfere with freedom of the press,'' said Economy Minister Wilma Salgado, whose department oversaw the seizure of properties allegedly linked to the Isaias family.
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