LIVE | Protests in Ecuador: Indigenous movement decrees second day of protest in Ecuador this Wednesday

The main indigenous movement of Ecuador has decreed a second day of protest against the government of the president Guillermo Lasso, and assured that this Wednesday he will take to the streets again to demand his rights and a reduction in the price of fuel.

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In an appearance from the province of Cotopaxi, the president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie), Leonidas Iza, set seven conditions to return to the situation of calm that, he said, were agreed in a virtual meeting of the leadership of peoples and nationalities.

Among them, his demand that the Executive lower the price of gasoline to its June 11 rate, that is, 1.5 dollars per gallon (3.78 liters) of diesel and 2.10 for the eco-country and extra .

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Faced with repeated increases and the indignation of a part of Ecuadorian society, Lasso announced on Friday a freeze, but he did so based on the price of last September, higher than that demanded by Conaie and social organizations, which this Tuesday staged a day of protest on a national scale.

In the demonstrations, which affected at least five provinces and were centered in Quito, the capital, 37 people were arrested.

“Demand from the national government the immediate release of all the comrades detained in an arbitrary, unjust and violent manner”, was the first of the conditions of the specifications agreed upon in the Conaie.

Also to demand from the State “comprehensive reparation” for all “brothers and sisters attacked” in the protests on Tuesday, and who “are injured in spaces and hospitals as a result of police and military repression by the public force.”

The concentrations of the first day of protest, which the Government valued positively with the exception of an outbreak of violence in Quito, were called by various unions and movements.

At the appearance, Iza did not mention the other organizations, and limited herself to speaking on behalf of the indigenous movement and the peoples under the umbrella of Conaie.

He did mention that, at the meeting, it had been agreed to “summon the three regional (indigenous organizations) and broad social sectors to join together against the neoliberal policies imposed by the Government.”

And he ratified the already declared “state of exception” in the indigenous territories as a form of “resistance” against “the presence of the military who entered our homes to intimidate our families and even to generate robbery.”

Two of those soldiers, Defense Minister Luis Hernández acknowledged on Tuesday, were being held according to the principles of indigenous justice in a community north of Quito, where, he said, they carried out “logistical activities” and were “in civilian clothes.”

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