- Title: Violent clashes, fires, and tear gas take over Quito streets
- Date: 9th October 2019
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 9, 2019) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS RUNNING / POLICE VEHICLE BARRELS DOWN STREET PROTESTERS ON STREET WITH SMOKE AND FIRE IN BACKGROUND PROTESTERS BEHIND SHIELD PROTESTERS AND FIRE BURNING IN FOREGROUND VARIOUS, PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS, MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AT POLICE PROTESTERS GROUPED ON STREET PROTESTERS FLEE INTERSECTION, ONE PROTESTER ROLLS BURNING TIRE DOWN STREET PROTESTERS THROWING ITEMS / POLICE SEEN FIRING TEAR GAS CANISTERS VARIOUS, PROTESTERS AT INTERSECTION, CLASHING WITH POLICE PROTESTERS ON STREET, FLAMING ROAD BLOCK SEEN PROTESTERS CHANTING (Spanish) "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED" PROTESTERS GATHERED ON STREET WOMAN PASSED OUT ON ROAD VARIOUS, PEOPLE ASSISTING WOMAN WHO PASSED OUT VARIOUS, PEOPLE CARRY WOMAN AWAY VARIOUS, PROTESTERS CARRYING ITEMS DOWN ROAD VARIOUS, PROTESTERS GATHERED ON ROAD
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 21:43
- Keywords: fire Ecuador tear gas violence clash protests police President Lenin Moreno flames
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0DOMDJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: FULL RVN QUALITY EDIT
Protesters in Quito, Ecuador clashed violently with police in the capital's colonial district on Wednesday (October 9), intense clouds of tear gas wafting through the air causing a woman to pass out in the road.
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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