- Title: Protester play cat-and-mouse with Ecuadorean authorities
- Date: 9th October 2019
- Summary: QUITO, ECUADOR (OCTOBER 09, 2019) (REUTERS) TOP VIEW OF ANTI-RIOT POLICE VEHICLE DRIVING TOWARDS CROWD OF PROTESTERS, THEN TURNS AROUND AND DRIVES THROUGH CROWD AGAIN WHILE PROTESTERS THROW ROCKS AND STICK GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTERS PROTESTERS WAVING FLAGS, TAUNTING GROUP OF ANTI-RIOT POLICE AT THE OTHER END OF THE STREET PROTESTERS GATHERED PROTESTERS TAUNTING ANTI-RIOT POLICE
- Embargoed: 23rd October 2019 16:46
- Keywords: Ecuador crisis fuel protests Quito
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0DNM13
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: LIVE U QUALITY. PLEASE MONITOR FOR UPDATES
Indigenous-led protesters began a national strike in Ecuador on Wednesday (October 09) after President Lenin Moreno refused to step down or overturn anti-austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.
Streets were empty of traffic and businesses were closed in Quito and other cities at the start of the shutdown, in Latin America's latest flashpoint over structural economic reforms.
Security forces fired teargas to block hundreds of protesters marching near the presidential palace in downtown Quito, the highland capital.
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.
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