Comunicación Intercultural en Ecuador: Legislación, Medios de Comunicación y Desafíos para la Igualdad de Voces.

Communication, being recognized as a right, opens a space for debate for the nationalities and peoples of Ecuador, since it guarantees their expression as a main element in the legislative section, especially intercultural communication, which when included in the Magna Carta and in the Organic Law of Communication, seeks equality in terms of the information issued by the media, avoiding "folklorizing" the stigma of the indigenous and Afro-descendant sector, allowing a plurality of voices. The stereotypes presented in this research show the way in which the discriminatory imaginary is built on the media discourse, since the hegemonic thinking excludes minority groups that are not an informative attraction in terms of content, and that their appearance in the media is done by the requirement of a current regulation. From this perspective, an analysis was made of the Ecuadorian regulatory frameworksand the practice of media communication. The work was approached from a qualitative and quantitative approach taking into account time cohorts: 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2023, in which journalistic content related to intercultural issues is monitored. In this way, it is possible to determine how the intercultural is constructed in the Ecuadorian press and to determine whether the changes in legislation have allowed an intercultural country from the contribution of the media.