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Ecuador’s 5,000-Troop Push Meets Indigenous Blockades After Subsidy Shock
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Ecuador’s 5,000-Troop Push Meets Indigenous Blockades After Subsidy Shock
Ecuador has rushed 5,000 additional troops and police to Otavalo to break roadblocks and reopen the Pan-American highway after a night and day of clashes that turned the Indigenous stronghold into the center of a national crisis. Authorities reported dozens of arrests and several injured officers; Indigenous leaders said more than 50 demonstrators were hurt, […]
Police Repression Intensifies in Ecuador as Protests Against Noboa Leave One Dead, One Critical - teleSUR English
The national strike in Ecuador has left another civilian dead and another gravely injured due to state repression today. The hospitalized person, 30-year-old farmer José Guamán, was initially declared dead before later showing signs of life and being taken to the ICU following Tuesday’s crackdown in the province of Imbabura. Meanwhile, Rosa Paqui Seraquive, an elderly woman from the Kichwa Saraguro community, allegedly died from asphyxiation cau…
When 23 days have passed since the beginning of the national strike against the government in Ecuador, Otavalo, the Andean city that symbolizes Ecuador’s indigenous resistance, lived its most violent day on Tuesday. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) reported that soldiers fired live ammunition at the demonstrators. “The government of Daniel Noboa has turned our communities into war zones,” a statement from the indigenous mov…
With this murder, there are already two confirmed fatalities in the framework of the national strike that this Wednesday turns 23 days in Ecuador against the policies of President Noboa.
The Government has deployed an additional 5,000 military personnel to end roadblocks in the Imbabura region, the stronghold of demonstrators, who are violently responding to this demonstration of force.
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