President Rafael Correa delivers the sabatina, his address, every Saturday. But I had something else to do that morning. By the time I got home at noon, people had written to me on Twitter, saying that I was going to jail. There was a photo of the president during the sabatina, and on the screen behind him was my logo and a photo of my memes. I’ve always posted satirical political memes on my Facebook page, about the government, about the opposition.

On YouTube, I watched the sabatina. The president said that I was a full-time employee of an opposition political party, paid to work on my Facebook page. He said I had intelligence software similar to the kind used to find Osama bin Laden. He said I was part of the “conservative restoration,” that I was a hater.

A lot of people think I hate the president, but that’s not true. I always used to comment on news sites, but then the president said that there were too many insults in the comments, and instead of hiring a moderator, Ecuadorean news sites just removed the comments section. So I said, “O.K., I’m going to create my own Facebook page, where I can give my opinion; and I’m going to do it differently, with images, with memes.” I decided to make it anonymous.

I came up with a name that was easy to remember. Crudo Ecuador. Raw Ecuador. I created a logo, I bought the domain, I reserved the name on Twitter. And then I started making these satirical memes.