- Title: Ecuador protesters burst into National Assembly as fuel-hike protests heat up
- Date: 8th October 2019
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 8, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PROTESTERS OUT ON STREET NEAR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING, DARK SMOKE AND FIRE SEEN NEAR BUILDING PROTESTERS RUNNING TOWARDS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, TEAR GAS AND SMOKE IN THE AIR VARIOUS OF GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS NEAR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PROTESTERS CHANTING: (Spanish) "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED" GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS OCCUPYING PART OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, CHANTING AND SINGING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ANONYMOUS PROTESTER, SAYING: "We have come because they've taken our fuel. That is no good for us. The bankers, the rich, the millionaires...but for us it's no good." / PROTESTER BEING ESCORTED BY RIOT POLICE OFFICER PROTESTERS GATHERED OUT ON THE STREET, TEAR GAS AND SMOKE IN THE AIR GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS OUT ON THE STREET GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS GATHERED NEAR ASSEMBLY
- Embargoed: 22nd October 2019 22:05
- Keywords: Protesters Quito Ecuador National Assembly riot police Moreno Correa
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001B08NY2V
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Indigenous Ecuadoreans protesting against government austerity measures burst through security lines into the National Assembly in Quito on Tuesday (October 8), witnesses said.
The group of demonstrators waved flags, chanted slogans and pumped fists in the air, before being moved out by police, in the most audacious of nearly a week of protests against President Lenin Moreno's government. The legislature was empty of staff and not sitting at the time.
Facing the biggest challenge to his two-and-a-half-year rule, President Lenin Moreno has declared a state of emergency and relocated government operations to the coastal city of Guayaquil where there has been less trouble.
Officials say the number of arrests has risen to 570.
Moreno has accused the leftist Correa, his one-time mentor and boss when he was vice president, of seeking a coup with the help of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
Moreno had enthusiastically backed Correa during his decade-long rule but broke with him after winning a 2017 election to succeed him and moved economic policies to the right.
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