Alvarez, who participated in the Third World Congress of News Agencies to be held in Bariloche, discussed the critical situation he faced the Ecuadorian society and said that had it not been for the role of public media hardly "we could be talking in this moment. "

Andes agency was created in 2009 "against the existence of private media had a strong pressure on governments, to the extent that any editorial written in television or derived, in many circumstances and in many situations, the withdrawal of some Minister or the early resignation, "he said.

The representative of Ecuador in this Congress explained that "the agency was born from a need for the government and was the Ministry of Communications who saw the need to develop an effort of this nature."

"Under similar conditions probably would not be speaking and attending this event and we would at this time in Ecuador in a politically very difficult to sustain, much like that of Honduras," he said.

He noted that "it was necessary to manage the news content that is disseminated to the public because when the revolt began at half past six in the Police Regiment Quito, some of the media began to encourage people out" .