Ecuador's protesters block roads as they plot their next move

Record ID: 1435386

  • Title: Ecuador's protesters block roads as they plot their next move
  • Date: 6th October 2019
  • Summary: CANGAHUA, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS SHOUTING: (Spanish) "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED" AS THEY BLOCK ROAD VARIOUS OF RESIDENTS STANDING NEXT TO BLOCKED ROAD A FEW VEHICLES BEING ALLOWED THROUGH VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS BLOCKING ROAD VARIOUS OF MEN WITH MASKS LOOKING ON RESIDENTS NEXT TO BLOCKED ROAD (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) EDUCATION LEADER OF THE KAYAMBI PEOPLE, LUIS IGUAMBA, SAYING: "We are fighting for everyone and we are fighting to foresee the rights we all have and we can't allow this. So, everyone, be on the lookout and keep up the fight. Let's radicalize the strike. May the strike live on, my fellows." RESIDENTS LOOKING ON (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) EDUCATION LEADER OF THE KAYAMBI PEOPLE, LUIS IGUAMBA, SAYING: "The march to Quito for tomorrow has been set. We won't say at what time, or when it will be, but only community leaders, only group leaders will meet to plan it." GENERAL OF BLOCKED ROAD HOODED MAN RESIDENTS NEXT TO BLOCKED ROAD VARIOUS OF TYRES BURNING ON BLOCKED ROAD
  • Embargoed: 20th October 2019 22:37
  • Keywords: Indigenous groups block roads protests President Lenin Moreno austerity measures
  • Location: CANGAHUA, ECUADOR
  • City: CANGAHUA, ECUADOR
  • Country: Ecuador
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AZYLOAV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Indigenous groups blocked roads in various places again on Sunday (October 6) with burning tyres, branches and rocks in a fourth day of protests against President Lenin Moreno's austerity measures.
    Demonstrators said they planned to march into capital Quito on Monday (October 7), although they didn't give more details.
    Ecuadoreans complain consumer prices have risen sharply as a knock-on effect of Moreno's abolition of fuel subsidies, which has also triggered the nation's worst unrest in more than a decade.
    After a two-day strike by transport unions, indigenous groups have now taken the lead in demonstrations against Moreno's economic measures.
    The 66-year-old Moreno won the 2017 election and has set the oil-producing nation on a centrist track after years of socialist rule under predecessor Rafael Correa.
    (Production: Alberto Fajardo)
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