The underlying texture of this graffiti is made up of newspaper articles. Stenciled upon them is an expressive figure, eloquently silenced by swaths of underlying concrete. The news has been stripped away from the mouth area, across the neck, and even the forearm. The hand is gone, and in its place seems to be a flickering flame. Ecuador has been having censorship issues, so it did not surprise me to find such a plea pasted upon a wall in Cuenca’s old city.