La calumnia contra el derecho al honor y buen nombre en la legislación ecuatoriana

Abstract

The following article aims to analyze the Ecuadorian legislation on the crime of slander against the right to honor and good name of citizens. For this, a descriptive study of type bibliographic review was carried out; systematized through scientific research methods: historical-logical. On this basis, it was necessary to use methods such as exegetical and analytical-synthetic. At the same time, was usedthe content analysis’technique. The foregoing allowed us to obtain the results that imply that in Ecuador there is a legal framework that systematizes the right to honor and good name of citizens. For this reason, article 56 number 2 of the Organic Integrated Process Code (COGEP), provides for the use of mass media for the citation of judicial processes. This, checks out the image of the same for the consideration of the insult as a violation and not as a crime typified by law and criminally understood as a legal vacuum.