- Title: Ecuadoreans set road barricade on fire amidst anger of fuel price hike
- Date: 7th October 2019
- Summary: MACHACHI, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 7, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF BARRICADE FROM PROTEST ON FIRE, PROTESTERS NEAR BARRICADE GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS NEAR BURNING BARRICADE PROTESTERS GATHERED OUT ON ROAD (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ANONYMOUS PROTESTER, SAYING: "We need to rise up until this problem (with fuel prices) is resolved. We are not going to give up, we're all going to rise up until the price of fuel goes down. We all need to rise up." BURNING BARRICADE PROTESTERS CHANTING (Spanish) "DOWN WITH LENIN MORENO" (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ANONYMOUS PROTESTER, SAYING: "We need the government to take opportune and timely measures because transport workers and the general population is losing. The people include those without the resources necessary to set up a fuel tank. Transport workers are suffering because the price of fuel has doubled so we need to then charge double, all prices will then go up. The strike is justified to bring down the price of fuel." PROTESTERS GATHERED ON BLOCKED ROAD
- Embargoed: 21st October 2019 17:01
- Keywords: protesters Ecuador street barricade Machachi fire President Lenin Moreno reforms fuel prices
- Location: MACHACHI, ECUADOR
- City: MACHACHI, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B03MKHZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Striking truck drivers and indigenous protesters set fire to a road blockade on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador on Monday (October 7) amidst public anger over President Lenin Moreno's austerity measures that cut fuel subsidies.
This fiery barricade in Machachi has stopped traffic to those entering Quito, with protesters vowing to stay put until the price of petrol goes down. Many in this town rely heavily on fuel to get them in and out and of the capital for work. Residents told Reuters they will be hard hit by fuel reforms.
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.
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.
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