The detainment [es] of Ecuadorian blogger Víctor Vizcaíno Luzuriaga for alleged offenses against Attorney General Washington Pesántez [es] became a trend [es] on Twitter, with strong reactions in the blogosphere and a harsh analysis regarding freedom of expression in Ecuador. The blogger was detained for the crime of offenses [es] against officials (Art. 231 from the Ecuadorian Criminal Code). Many have been commenting on the situation online with the Twitter hashtag #presoporopinar [es] (in English: detained for expressing his opinion). The blogger was freed following the formalization of the judicial report. He would have argued “forgery of identity” to write off the offenses, but he affirmed that he was not the creator nor the author of the messages highlighted on said webpage, as The Guayaquil Times [es] reported. Vizcaíno blogs La Plegaria de un Pagano [es] (currently set to private) and has a YouTube [es] page whose description is “A Youtube channel of open and frontal opposition to socialism and its declared stupidity.” His Twitter account, (@victorvizcaino) with more than 600 followers contains his autobiography: [es] Busco ser inmortal a punta de egoismo e individualismo pese a una pulsión de muerte buscadora del bien común, aun creo que podré, aunque sea de forma virtual. From his blog, he wrote an article about the Attorney General's actions; the post was entitled “Washington Pesantes… criminal, accessory to criminals and f**got” [es]. The blog post accuses the wife of Ecuadorian Attorney General, Washington Pesantes, of running over a Colombian girl [es] and later accuses the General of a series of acts such as “crook” and “homosexual.” His post states: Todo ha quedado frío, es impresionante descubrir el poder del dinero y el miedo de algunos medios junto a la población general Vizcaíno defines his blog as “proudly Guayaquileño, right-wing and liberal with news, current events, opinions, politics, poetry, science, psychoanalysis and more.” [es] The site contains publications, videos and photo montages in which Vizcaíno questions the “regime” of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, and his collaborators, among them Attorney General Pesántez. The blogger is also a member of the Libertarian Movement (that has a Facebook page) [es], which supports the ‘No’ in the referendum from May 7. Ecuador Inmediato [es] indicates that the investigations against Vizcaíno began over a year ago. Eduardo Palacios, in the Tecnodatum [es] blog explains: Vizcaíno es el primer bloguero ecuatoriano en ser detenido por las opiniones expresadas de su blog Blogger Varth Deider [es] on the blog entitled Comentarios del lado oscuro [es] (Comments from the dark side) defends the anonymity of blogger identities. Es como el caso de este blog en donde los posts, en su mayoría, están suscritos por un tal Varth Deider, personaje imaginario sin cédula de identidad o ciudadanía. Cualquiera que sepa la clave de este blog podría publicar textos los cuales saldrían publicados con dicho nombre. Hasta donde yo se, cualquier persona con acceso a la clave del sitio “laplegariadeunpagano.com” puede publicar bajo el seudónimo de “Víctor Vizcaíno”; porque, sépanlo señores, en los blogs se firma con seudónimos. It's like the case of this blog where the posts, in their majority, are written under one Varth Deider, an imaginary character without an identity card or citizenship. Whoever knows the password to this blog could publish text that would be published under said name. For all I know, anybody with access to the site “laplegariadeunpagano.com” could be published under the pseudonym of “Víctor Vizcaíno”; because, take note people, blogs are signed with pseudonyms. The blog balconperegrino, in its post “Aterrizó el buitre negro sobre la blogosfera” [es], comments: en ningún país democrático se persiguen juicios por “ofensas” contra funcionarios del Estado, pues eso atenta contra la esencia misma de la democracia, que es la libertad de cada ciudadano para emitir juicios y criterios sobre la labor de sus supuestos representantes. Arrestar por una supuesta ofensa verbal es propio de un país que se regodea en el subdesarrollo. Un país de operetta, de soldaditos de plomo, de provocado analfabetismo, de gobernantes con delirio de grandeza, un banana republic a fin de cuentas.