- Title: Protesters hail victory after Ecuador's Moreno repeals fuel subsidy cut
- Date: 14th October 2019
- Summary: ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS OF INDIGENOUS CITIZENS WATCHING DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND INDIGENOUS GROUPS VARIOUS OF INDIGENOUS CITIZENS CELEBRATING AFTER DECREE IS REPEALED (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED INDIGENOUS PROTESTER, SAYING: "We all have this hope that all these efforts that we have made over these 12 days of resistance has not been in vain. It grieves us that our brothers have lost lives in the battle. But we hope that there won't be impunity in these deaths, and we hope the people's mandate will be fulfilled." INDIGENOUS CITIZENS CELEBRATING
- Embargoed: 28th October 2019 06:35
- Keywords: deal protesters protests Ecuador Quito President Lenin Moreno austerity
- Location: QUITO, ECUADOR
- City: QUITO, ECUADOR
- Country: Ecuador
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA005B12JDC7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART AUDIO AS INCOMING
Ecuadorians took to the streets of Quito in celebration on Sunday (October 13) as President Lenin Moreno's government agreed to repeal a decree that ended fuel subsidies.
The government announced that they will form a commission with indigenous leaders to pass a new law they can agree on, a mediator said late on Sunday (October 13).
Arnaud Peral, the representative of the United Nations in Ecuador, said that indigenous leaders agreed to call off protests against the decree.
The announcement was a major breakthrough in a dispute that has unleashed 12 days of unrest in the capital Quito.
Moreno has blamed groups loyal to former president Rafael Correa and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for inciting violence in the capital.
Correa faces 29 different charges against him, from corruption to misuse of power, in Ecuador.
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