- Title: Ecuador police drive protesters from Quito city center
- Date: 9th October 2019
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 09, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS FILING OUT OF STREET BETWEEN POLICE OFFICERS PROTESTERS ON STREET, POLICE BEATING PERSON IN DOORWAY (PROFANITY OVERHEARD) PROTESTERS RUSHING PAST POLICE VARIOUS, PROTESTERS FLEEING, POLICE STRIKING THEM VARIOUS, PROTESTERS GATHERED ON STREET WITH FIRE BURNING VARIOUS, POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS / SMOKE RISING PROTESTER THROWING TEAR GAS CANISTER VARIOUS, PEOPLE FLEEING DOWN ROAD AS TEAR GAS WAFTS VARIOUS, PEOPLE DEPARTING CITY CENTER VARIOUS, POLICE IN PLAZA FIRING TEAR GAS CANISTERS TO DISPERSE PROTESTERS CROWD OF PROTESTERS DEPARTING VARIOUS, POLICE ADVANCING DOWN ROADS
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 23:54
- Keywords: Ecuador protests Lenin Moreno economic measures clashes police Quito
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0DOV2F
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: PROFANITY OVERHEARD IN SHOT 2
EDITORS NOTE: FULL RVN QUALITY EDIT
Protesters in Quito, Ecuador were driven from parts of the city center on Wednesday afternoon (October 9) as police advanced down roads and through plazas firing tear gas to disperse the violent demonstrations.
Police could be seen violently beating one protester in a doorway as crowds of people fled the area.
Ecuadorean protesters held a national strike and clashed with security forces after President Lenin Moreno refused to step down or overturn anti-austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.
Businesses were closed from early in Quito and other cities during the shutdown, in Latin America's latest flare-up over unpopular structural reforms.
Violent demonstrations erupted in the Andean nation of 17 million people a week ago when Moreno cut fuel subsidies as part of a package of measures in line with a $4.2 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan.
The main indigenous group CONAIE, which has mobilized some 6,000 members to Quito from outlying areas, said Moreno's government was behaving like a "military dictatorship" by declaring a state of emergency and setting an overnight curfew.
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