At a special assembly in late February, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the country’s largest and most powerful Indigenous organization, decided to launch a "progressive escalation" of anti-government protests, and called others to join them in opposing President Rafael Correa’s "neoliberal and colonialist" policies. CONAIE sees the president of betraying the principles of the alliance that helped him come to power.

After taking part in the February 11th press conference on community radio organized by Cultural Survival, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Speech, Frank La Rue filed a case in Guatemala’s Constitutional Court against the government claiming that the existing telecommunications law is in violation of freedom of expression and speech guaranteed in the Guatemalan Constitution.