![]() ![]() ![]() In Quito, masked youths faced off with riot police who drove them back with tear gas and deployed armored vehicles. Indigenous groups, students and unions joined the action, barricading roads with rocks and burning tires. With the fuel subsidy cut taking effect on Thursday, taxi, bus and truck drivers blocked streets from early morning in the highland capital Quito and in Guayaquil on the Pacific coast. “Down with the package!” demonstrators shouted, referring to measures enacted this week as Moreno puts Ecuador on a centrist, market-friendly path after years of leftist rule.
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