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Ecuador Deploys Army in Capital to Deal with Intensifying Indigenous Protests
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Ecuadornews: The armed forces and the national police of Ecuador yesterday executed a large deployment of personnel to the capital of the country and provinces of the Sierra Norte, during the 19th day of the indefinite national strike, convened by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), in rejection of the elimination of the subsidy to diesel, decreed by the government.
CONAIE and D.H.H. collectives warned that the Government of Noboa had set up assemblies to criminalize the community and justify armed intervention.
The Minister of Defense warned that no one will take over the city and that the control of order will be “strongly and within the law”
The demonstrations, which concentrated on the outskirts of the capital, resulted in one death and 160 injuries.
Ecuador deploys army in capital to deal with intensifying indigenous protests
Three thousand soldiers have been called in to contain protests against rising diesel prices led by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, which is threatening to occupy Quito.
The police and the military have reinforced security in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, in the face of threats from the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie), Marlon Vargas, that the city will be taken if the government does not comply with their demands, among them, abrogating the decree that eliminated the subsidy to diesel.In the early hours of this Friday, the police gathered more than a thousand officers to give…
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