'We're going to fight until he leaves' - Ecuador protests against government rage on
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1435915
'We're going to fight until he leaves' - Ecuador protests against government rage on
- Title: 'We're going to fight until he leaves' - Ecuador protests against government rage on
- Date: 9th October 2019
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 9, 2019) (REUTERS) CROWD OF PROTESTERS RUNNING DOWN STREET POLICE FIRING TEAR GAS AT PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS VARIOUS, CROWD OF PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF FIRE BURNING AT INTERSECTION PROTESTERS RUNNING DOWN STREET (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER, SAYING: "We're going to fight until he leaves (referring to Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno), that man that isn't worth anything. We're all fighting, it's not four Correa-ists (referring to supporters of former President Rafael Correa), but rather all of Ecuador that is insulted by having to work to support all the public employees who make a good salary without working. And, the poor only (are able to) eat one time per day, one time per day." POLICE PUTTING OUT FIRE ON ROAD PROTESTERS WAVING FLAGS PROTESTERS IN FOREGROUND, POLICE IN BACKGROUND POLICE ADVANCING UP STREET, FIRING TEAR GAS AND THROWING ROCKS POLICE DETAINING PROTESTERS
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 23:14
- 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: LVA001B0DOTHJ
- 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), with protesters setting fires and throwing rocks and police firing canisters of tear gas in response.
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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